Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Pinterest Strikes Again

WHEW! MAY.DAY! 

After four years without Daylight Savings Time, this change is whipping us! 

This is the story of another pinterest project.....and it will be as cute as the last one...but...um....it's not as QUICK as I'd thought. 

Just LOOK at that girl.....she's displaying all the colors of the rainbow. 

It takes more time than one would imagine to sort skittles into piles of various colors....

No, the Skittles are NOT why Arielle looks like this.....the little bars below are the culprits. The wrappers are supposed to be GREEN. I asked her to go change the ink in the printer! ::snort::  We are making these for neighbors....and I wanted a little treat for our Bible study....I decided they wouldn't care if they were blue and we won't be meeting again before St. Patrick's -  so there you have it. LOL
 
 Michael watched me for a bit of time and then set up an assembly line to make wrapping these little peppies quicker. The Skittle treat is turning out cute. I'll post photos of that later...like maybe AFTER Michael takes them to the staff. ::snort::

Choosing Joy!
©2014 D.R.G.
~Coram Deo~
Living all of life before the face of God...

Imitating the Teacher

A pupil is not above his teacher, but everyone, after he has been fully trained will be like his teacher. Luke 6:40

Jesus is my teacher. Do I see Him as my teacher? Do I turn to Him when I'm perplexed? Do I turn to Him over other sources of information? Do I act like I believe Jesus is relevant to MY  life in the 21st century?
Made this myself!!!!

My heart's desire is to be like my Teacher. I want to imitate Him, reflect Him, emulate Him, resemble Him, live like Him, follow Him - be His disciple.

I will do this as  I am "fully trained" by Him. I can be transformed into His image; I only have to surrender to the training regimen. There is no room for apathy or laziness in this course. I am enrolled in this course through grace, I will complete this course by grace.

God has graced me with the spiritual gift of teaching. I dare not attempt to teach until I've been taught by the Teacher.

I've been reading The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard and some quotes had me thinking about Jesus as  my teacher before I read this verse. 

"Where we spontaneously look for "information" on how to live shows how we truly feel and who we really have confidence in. And nothing more forcibly demonstrates the extent to which we automatically assume the irrelevance of Jesus as teacher for our "real" lives." (page 56)

We settle back into defacto alienation of our religion from Jesus as a friend and teacher, and from our moment to moment existence as a holy calling or appointment with God. Some will substitute ritual behavior for divine vitality and personal integrity; others, may be content with an isolated string of "experiences" rather than transformation of character. (page 55)

And since I'm on a Dallas role - these three questions are SO good for evaluating many things: what I share with my children,  what I share with a mentor group, what I speak at a retreat, what I teach at  PWOC etc.
  • Does the gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of Jesus?
  • Would those who believe it become His apprentices as a natural "next step"?
  • What can we reasonably expect would result from people actually believing the substance of my message? (page 58)

Interesting that the above was written on 6 Mar (Yeah, I don't always type each a.m.), before any PWOC theme brainstorming. ::snort::  This topic of discipleship, following, imitating has been recurring as I read through the gospels, hasn't it? 

Choosing Joy!
©2014 D.R.G.
~Coram Deo~
Living all of life before the face of God...