Excerpt from "Searching for God knows what?" - by Don Miller (http://www.donmilleris.com/) A Circus of Redemption - why a three-legged man is better than a bearded woman, ch. 11, pg. 177
Don writes:
I would imagine, then, that the repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another. Jesus says many times in the gospel that He knows the heart of man, and the heart of man does not have the power to give glory. I think Jesus is saying, look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get you glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are, and only then will you have true, uninhibited relationships with others.
The more I stop and think and take time to realize who God is and why He chose to have a relationship with me, I just smile. Not a creepy one, but a heart-warming, loving smile...(I know it's still creepy)...but how amazing is our God? My answer is too...what is yours?
Brutal as it was, the week that is, the weekend was super! My kids ran in the Cougar Run at E. Hale Curran and did quite awesome. Despite it being one of the hottest days of the year, as usual for the Cougar Run, both of them ran over 2 miles! It was great to see both of them trying their best and coming by for a squirt of the water bottle...I had squirting duties. One of the first people that I ever met at Curran, while we were waiting with our boys on first day of school, Diane Keegan remarked, "I cannot believe that this is our 5th Cougar Run already". We both kind of freaked out that our kids are getting so old, which just makes us older! This is Dillon (far left) with a couple of his buddies from the run...
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