Chapter 37
Good Monday Morning to this week 37 of 2022.
A recurring topic this week – is the ability to opt-out.
Opt-out; the choice to participate in something or the decision to withdraw.
Sabbath becomes a decisive, concrete, visible way of “opting-out” for and aligning with the God of rest. Walter Brueggemann
Spirituality extends the scope of human beings. Spirituality, is not about opting out of this world, but opting-in, it’s about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
Co-opted convictions will always betray you. Charles M. Blow
So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it’s the best possible thing. But they don’t relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions. Dallas Willard
Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness … Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Jesus was facing the hour of his death, and he prayed, ‘Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from me’. Was it possible? Could Jesus have opted out of his suffering and death upon the cross?
Currently, many opt-out procedures, be it online as well as in social settings are quite hopeless and cumbersome, making it hard to be control. Of course it’s really also a question of much, in control of things, we really need to be. One question is to declutter and opt-out, the other is to choose and opt-in on that which is beneficial!
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Wishing you a great start to this week as you choose to opt-in and opt-out, a constant set of choices to make our daily lives.
Philemon