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This may not even make it through the email filter, but I swear I have a meaning behind this word.
In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis says “And if what we are matters even more than what we do-if, indeed, what we do matters chiefly as evidence of what we are-then it follows that the change which i most need to undergo is a change that my own direct, voluntary efforts cannot bring about”
And I think that is the only way I can explain my extremely random word. That is to say, that in the past, I would have chosen a really important word that I could “work” on for the following year.
However, after trying that for a long time, I finally gave up on changing myself.
Lewis also puts it like this:
“After the first few steps in the Christian life, we realize that everything which really needs to be done in our souls can be done only by God”
My one word doesn’t exemplify moving forward but backward.
Which really doesn’t settle well with most of us in our current Christian culture, but for me it is the only option.
Once again, Lewis puts it this way:
“Christ says ‘Give me All. I don’t want so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it.”
These are just a few of my favorite quotes but hopefully they help to describe why I chose such a strange word.
I feel like Christ is calling us, myself included, to come and die. To lay down our desires, wants, even our efforts to be good.
All of this so that he may become our life.
And I get the idea that as we drink of His life, then the two will merge, become one, like in a marriage.
And the effort that we used to exert, will fade away, as our focus becomes not our own effort, but Christ.
And suddenly, we will be changed from the inside out.
Our desires will change and our outlook will change.
It may not be what I want and it may be out of my control, but moving forward and allowing him to have his way, will surely be a Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious kind of life.
