Back in the present, as I took another sip of coffee, I thought, the reason coffee was spilled on me was not because I was accidentally bumped but because there was coffee in the cup to begin with. What’s inside a person is what comes out when they are bumped. We are to be filled with Christ so that when we are bumped, out come forgiveness, understanding, encouragement, compassion, love and whatever the present moment demands. (Col. 1:27). ❖ ...as we fast, prepare our hearts, deepening our prayer lives, and attempt to take our spiritual disciplines more seriously, - its easy to think we are holy. But its what we do when life knocks us around and we get jolted. We will get bumped. What is inside? What will come out? anger? revenge? mean-spirited, hurtful words? jealousy? If that is what is inside you, then that is what will come out. However, if forgiveness, love, words that offer redemption, …if those are the things that are inside you – then that is what will be unleashed on whatever jars us out of our comfort zones. May this time be one in which the overflow within us is emptied of everything that isn’t rooted in love. nazarethhouseap.org/2012/02/28/coffee-spilled/
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