friends welcome

so i've been terribly slack about these things.
please welcome some new friends to livejournal. poke them in the head until they talk to you and you get to see how wonderful they are.

1onajourney seeker, holistic, adventurer

hadenhopper talented actress and costumer, funny lady and beautiful mother

durlindana philosopher, aesthete, creator of hilarious inappropriateness

durlindana if you post something then i have somewhere to comment. also you should find spiralshell, skia and a couple other johnnies on here.

x-posted from xianleft

someone on the christianleft community asked about finding joy in christ. i thought this was an interesting question so i am posting my response here.



did you know that john wesley accused himself of insufficient joy to be a good christian?

for me a lot of the joy i experience is about understanding and radical love. and i like my understanding complicated so i went to seminary to get it and finished an emphasis in systematic theology. i didn't used to understand the significance of Christ in christianity and so now i like to remind myself frequently of the many ways that Christ is God in solidarity with the least and lost and that means hope even for me. i know that i am not worth such a sacrifice...and i am reminded that love is not about what people are worth. it is an irrational thing. i am overpowered by the idea that God could love me that much. that He could love my screwed up friends as much as i love them. that there is hope for all of us because of what happened on the cross. and when i read moltman or wesley or even some of my class notes i tear up with overwhelmed feeling that something so miraculous could happen and that God loves us enough to make it happen. a really good sermon will do this to me too, but less reliably. as i read more and spend more time meditating on the mystery of our salvation, the joy of Christ comes to me more easily. instead of being confronted by joy only when i am reading or having theology crammed into my brain, i experience that joy when i correct my thoughts down a more christian path or when i give granola bars to homeless people or when i help a friend through a hard time. i suspect that this could get to be like a runner's high and that truely good christians are really joy addicts.

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