Dyno

Jan 28, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Mason

I went to a climbing gym last week. People in the kind of shape I’m in know what it feels like to go climbing after not having done anything nearly so physically demanding in a long, long time. I haven’t been that sore in a long time, but it was such a good feeling! The feeling of being alive, having done something really difficult but pushing yourself more than you have in a while, having used every muscle in your body, and getting to rest and recover. It’s perfect situation for rest, and it has never felt better to go to sleep at the end of the day.

A flower’s gotta push through the ground to bloom. If you don’t push yourself at all, you will remain un-blooming and probably get tired of the dirt and never appreciate the light of day.

I don’t want my life with Jesus to look like a seed / seedling, full of life, but stuck underground. I think we get this incredible gift of life, and then with it we grow because of it, and we sometimes we have to push pretty hard as part of the process. It’s not that the gift of life isn’t strong enough to sustain itself, it’s that this life is all about relationship with Jesus, and He wants to pull us up as well as have us climb up. Push and pull. Give and take. Hold and chase.

Communion with God: Enjoying His presence, and when I don’t feel it, to do whatever it takes to get back into His presence. Yes, God never leaves us nor forsakes us, but He also leads us. In His divine wisdom sometimes He makes us get up and go after Him. Perhaps if He always just came to us where we are we would never leave our chairs, and never get out of ruts, and never grow, and never get exercise, and never feel or experience the life that we do indeed have. God is moved when we move.

So, feeling the need to push through things, to climb higher, to grow, to be with Jesus, I’m gonna get a little sore now and then. It’s so great that God gives us rest and nourishment and refreshment at any time. Then I will be ready to climb some more.

Acetylocholine

Jan 18, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Mason

“Faith is acting like it is so even when it doesn’t seem to be so in order for it to be so because it is so.”
We have not inherited wind. I fear that a lot of people have come to terms with that false understanding that wind is all they get, that it’s good sounding [...]

Netting

Jan 12, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Mason

Proper perspective is a thing I am in serious pursuit of. In every way, I want to see the way God intends for me to see. I want to see things as they really are. I want to position myself in the glorious combination of humility and stepping into my inheritance as God’s son. I [...]

Christmas Every Day

Jan 2, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Mason

It’s easy to celebrate after good things go down. I’m trying out celebrating beforehand. It’s really fun, you should try it! There are things to rejoice in, past, present, and future. We’re pretty familiar with enjoying the past but too preoccupied to enjoy the present and too stressed about the future to enjoy the good [...]

Gesamtkunstwerk

Dec 15, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Mason

I hardly even wanna throw words at this. But I can’t resist trying.
God’s style is extravagant and unrelenting. He is a treasure Himself, to such an extent that everything is singing or dancing or rejoicing or whatever he, she, or it can do to declare the glory of God. Mountains, trees, dirt, roots, people, roads, [...]

Ikka Danran

Dec 6, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Mason

Partaking in the divine nature of Christ, dwelling in the house of the Lord:  Things start happening that are way beyond what anyone expected. Then you start expecting that expanded concept of Holy goodness, then Jesus blows your mind again.
We are not the avant-garde, although it’d be easy to think so based on present perspective. [...]

Tinnitus

Nov 29, 2011 Uncategorized Comments Off
Posted by Mason

I want so much of Jesus that my ears are ringing beautiful chords at all times. Holy tinnitus. I don’t mind asking for a lot, because I know Jesus hears and answers prayers, and how much would it suck to be disappointed with how little I asked for. You get as much [...]

Ives Goes Sledding

Nov 18, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Mason

Feeling the embrace of Jesus big time these days. It is that which makes me durable and simultaneously melts my heart.
The Bride lacks nothing. People always talking dirt… dirt has no value both in the kingdom of God and the world we live in. Get over the dirt and see things how they really are. [...]

Hiking

Nov 7, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Mason

This is not self-actualization. This is being filled and spilled.
He just wants to love you. He wants you to revel in His glory. His plans are bigger than I want to admit. It requires me laying down everything and dying. It’s silly that I would resist this, because I gain everything that life truly is [...]

Napping

Oct 29, 2011 Uncategorized 1 Comment
Posted by Mason

It is the Lord that holds things still and sets them in motion. It’s only when you let God do what He does best that you can do what you do best.
Fasting negativity is something I want to do for the rest of my life. It is teaching me how to perceive in healthier way. [...]