But it is just as valuable to work in your own garden and through dirty He wants to meet you through your own personal and dedicated engagement with Him.īe valuable to listen what activists and scientists has to say about climateĬhange. More than you, but Jesus does not only want to meet you through someone else. Yes, there are people that can help you, people that know But when it comes to God and your deepest held believes, Or food prices, you don’t have the time to go and investigate for yourself inĭepth if it is true. It was born out of personal engagement with nature, tradition and contemporary Theirīelieves and moves was based on firsthand encounters not on second-hand These men were men that investigated and saw for themselves. Opinion or to put it aside for a while but for that very reason it is important It might be much more difficult for us than for them to ignore popular Had way less access to popular opinion because there was no internet and social The popular opinion cheering for the things that matter to Him. Jesus is not good at? He is not good at popularity contexts. Opinion and more to Scripture, Tradition and Nature Understanding of who Jesus is this advent. To focus on a few important dots that can help us to gain a clearer
Should be paying attention to this Christmas. There isĪ small war going on for your attention. With God’s wonders, but the world we live in is also a contested one. TheĬapacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.” “The quality of life is proportionate, always, to our capacity for delight. Jesus, who is called in Colossians, The First Born of all creation. See, every story we hear and every person we encounter, is somehow connected to When we act on that we make discoveriesĪbout God in our world that brings delight. When we do this, we see that there are dots in our lives thatĬonnect and show us a picture of Jesus. When we look for God in the things we see, the stories we hear and the people We grow in wisdom, when we pay attention, We are kind of stuck with the IQ we are born withīut all of us can grow in wisdom. Today? You might think you are not as intelligent as the wise men. Them, the excitement and delight of encountering Jesus, can still happen to us Imagine their delight when it lead them right up to Jesus? It must have been These guys went out based on the picture their dots showed them and can you Men also acted on what they have discovered. Proclaims in its cycles and connected it all in a way that lead them to Jesus. These guys took what the prophets of old said and what nature ever so subtly To a true picture of reality and of God, you are wise. If you can connect the dots in such a way that it can lead you Being wise has toĭo, not with how much you know, but in your ability to connect the dots between WeĬannot even say for sure if they were three!įor certain about them. There is a lot of speculation when it comes to the wise men. These Magi actually came from China, but he is yet to convince other scholars A scholar recently foundĮvidence from a document dating back to the time of the gospel of Matthew that Kings because we read that Herod received them and looked up to them. Most scholars say they were a priestly class of It helps to develop their fine motor skills but also their intelligence. Occupational therapists say the connect the dot exercises are very beneficial for a child. It takes some paying attention to connect the dots. That screws up the whole picture and it is very frustrating when you do that. I also remember trying to cut corners sometimes and not following the dots in the correct order. I remember the delight when I finished and looked at it. Do you remember the “connect the dots” pictures that we used to draw as children? I can still remember the excitement when starting out with a new one, wondering what picture it will reveal.
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