gladitudes

Today, over lunch, I took a little drive to collect my thoughts and get some lunch. I popped in a CD that I really enjoy: Sara Groves – Add to the Beauty. I’ve listened to the CD a lot and now don’t always pay that much attention to the words. This time, though, for some reason I really listened.

As I heard the words to this song, I guess, I was really touched. This is totally the attitude and motivation I have sometimes and want to have all the time.

Take a listen. Song: “Loving a Person”

I found this video by Brennan Manning on youTube this weekend. I haven’t been able to stop watching and thinking about it. I’m pretty convinced that what he is saying is true. Watch it.

1 John 4:10

“I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.” Read more

“Then Jesus wept. The people who were standing nearby said, ‘See how much he loved him!’” Read more

“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, ¹⁷so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, ¹⁸may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, ¹⁹and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Read more