Guest Speaker: Jessi Marcus - "Relationship in Time"
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1. What might you discern, in this final third of the year, that God might be asking you NOT to do?
“Stress is a perverted relationship to time…we become [time’s] victim.” John O’Donohue
She also asked (paraphrased) “do you think the way you live your life (and the way you engage with time) reflect God’s vision for your life in the world?”
“You are not a machine. Your life is a garden, and it’s a life that needs to be tended.”
“Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day. Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” - Dallas Willard
“Hurry and love are incompatible. All my worst moments…are when I’m in a hurry - late for an appointment, behind on my unrealistic to-do list, trying to cram too much into my day. I ooze anger, tension, a critical-nagging - the antithesis of love.” - John Mark Comer
“Love requires a slowness… love requires margins…love requires hospitality.”
God prunes both the branches that are not bearing fruit AND the living branches… all in order for us to bear more fruit. (Re: John 15:1-2)
What in your life needs to get pruned right now?
2. What might you discern that God is asking you to continue to do?
What in your life needs you to give it time to faithfully tend it?
3. What new thing do you discern that God might be asking you to plant?
“Whatever you plant in your life will be the thing that grows.”
Where’s the deficiency in your life right now?
“When you step into that spacious place, what is God trying to tell you?”
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