Love is in the Air (by Colin Lagerwall)

Love is in the Air


by Colin Lagerwall on Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 6:21pm


These are some thoughts that are burning in me, I commented the thoughts below on a post and felt I could share them as a note :

When one starts to hear Grace, it is here that the heart begins to open, and we feel renewed and awakened, because Love has appeared (the Love of our life), and we subsequently begin to live from the heart.

It is also here that we are presented with our theologies which prevent love from flourishing, from further heart growth, mindsets that oppose the integrity of what we know to be true of love, yet we have branded God, who IS love, with characteristics which just don't allow further awakening....

It is therefore of UTMOST importance that we know who He is.. (His nature) ...any doubt in the integrity of His being totally and eternally FOR me and ALL others, will cause me to close off to Him, not by "choice" but by heart-reflex........when we trust, we open up, when we see someone we really WANT to be with, nothing can stop us, we will climb the highest mountain, not because we should, but because we want to.

I think humanity as a whole is at this point now, where we have tasted and seen that the Lord IS good, but we are being confronted with conflicting thoughts from within our own theologies, our own deep set understanding/misunderstandings of the nature of God, thoughts that, instead of nurturing heart response, cause withdrawal, or confusion.

Some are sitting on the sidelines and watching the show, grimly hanging onto the precepts of the past, not daring to brave the onslaughts of the naysayers and thereby shielding themselves from the accusers hot-iron butt-branding of "heretic"

...Others are abandoning all, including their reputations of being stable pillars in the christian community, and are following their hearts and the intuitive knowing that He is much better than we have ever been led to believe.

Their hearts have tasted Love, and the heady fragrance in the air is a promise that this is the beginning, and no amount of human resistance is going to thwart this awakening that has just begun....

"This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before."     —      Karl Barth (The Humanity of God)

Keep doing what you are doing.

This thought has been "haunting" me for weeks now, so I must write it down as an encouragement to others. Kirsten, my daughter, wrote these words tonight on her profile and it just sparked something in me. She wrote "Follow your dreams peeps, even if it starts small!" 

I have been very active in church activity for many years and I found that there was a teaching and tendency to encourage people to follow "GOD's plan for the lives". ( I was guilty of this as well) This was put in many ways. For example, "seek out you destiny", "pursue God's calling", etc. These statements are not false or wrong, but oh my, have you thought how stagnating they can be!

The moment a mentor or leader says that to a person, there is a tendency to stop, and re-evaluate your life. If you are slightly dissatisfied, there is a chance that you will take yourself into a "holding" pattern, waiting for that Heavenly 'voice' to tell you the next step or what to do. So, you go from holding pattern to holding pattern "expecting" something to happen or something to break.

A very wise man once said to me, "Keep doing what you are doing to your best ability until GOD tells you to stop or until HE tells you to do something different." This statement took me out of a 'holding pattern and into activity. In that activity I find blessing, peace, joy, fulfilment and destiny. Yes, there are days when that expectation rises and I wonder what the next level or assignment will be, but in the mean time, my assignment is to "keep doing what I am doing to my best ability until GOD tells me to stop or until HE tells me to do something different."

So, don't ever sit and do nothing. Get up look around, find what is bubbling out of you heart and "Keep doing what you are doing to your best ability until GOD tells you to stop or until HE tells you to do something different."

Nothing!

My opening thought is about "nothing".

Have you ever wondered what thinking about "nothing" is like. Well it must be very exhausting because it makes the biggest strongest men tired.

Here is the reasoning or so I am told. Men often sit quietly on their favorite chairs or spots in the garden, gazing into the realms of the wise and unknown. The lady in their life will then walk into their space and inquisitively or lovingly ask that most intrusive question, "What are you thinking about, Sweetheart".

The answer, "NOTHING, dear!" and a cheesy smile will usually creep across the mans face.

So you see, men big and small do unknowingly and unwittingly partake in the awesome form of meditation called "Nothingness meditation"...... or maybe they are all just to embarrassed to tell what they were thinking about.