{"id":431,"date":"2019-11-10T13:34:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T13:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warapungamonday.wordpress.com\/?p=431"},"modified":"2019-11-10T13:34:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T13:34:11","slug":"belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"Belonging"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten
\nthat we belong to each other Mother Teresa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Good Monday Morning to this week 46 of 2019<\/p>\n

Belonging;<\/p>\n

The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; in that sense, community takes away loneliness. Henri Nouwen<\/p>\n

Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.
\nBren\u00e9 Brown<\/p>\n

Belonging;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The affinity for a place or situation, acceptance, association, attachment, inclusion, kinship, loyalty, rapport, relationship.<\/p>\n

“It’s not quite love and it’s not quite community; it’s just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together.” Keegan<\/p>\n

Having a sense of belonging is a common experience. Belonging means acceptance as a member or part. Such a simple word for huge concept. A sense of belonging is a human need, just like the need for food and shelter. Feeling that you belong is most important in seeing value in life and in coping with the intensity of daily life.<\/p>\n

So many churches or groups of people claim that first, you have to behave right, and then you can believe the Gospel, and then once you have gotten that right, we will let you belong and become a member of our church or group. I believe it has to be the other way around. When it comes to church, I think the formula in a sense should be;<\/p>\n

belong, believe, behave<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus first let these individuals know that they belonged\u2014that He loved them regardless of their behavior. One of the most powerful verses is in Mark 10 where it says, “Jesus looked at him and loved him,\u00a0 in the encounter with the rich young ruler who chose money over following Jesus. Or another of his answers “whatever you do for the least of these, you do for Me”. People around Jesus\u00a0didn\u2019t have to believe in Jesus before they were shown His love and compassion. Rather, they believed because of it. And only after the belonging and the believing comes the third step\u2014behaving<\/em>. Because I belonged, it led me to believe. Because I believed, it causes me to change my act, challenging that within me that wasn’t is according to the belonging one you now believe in.<\/p>\n

The House of Belonging
\n<\/strong>Awake to a new morning.<\/p>\n

Thinking for a moment
\nit was one day like any other.<\/p>\n

But, the veil had gone
\nA new feel of heart.
\nI thought; as I utter the place of exile
\nthe dimensionality of being out there,
\nto then have my face turned\u00a0towards a place,
\nimmediately start to walk in that direction
\nof a new way, a new being part of partaking,
\nspelling the word;\u00a0 be, be-longing to belonging.<\/p>\n

Was it the quiet and stillness of
\nGod Shekhinah, as HIs manifestation, descended to
\ndwell among humanity?<\/p>\n

Another prayer returned through
\nthe voice of He with the
\ntriune nature calling forth the real sense
\nof belonging?<\/p>\n

And I thought,
\nthis is a good day!<\/p>\n

This is the day
\nI realize
\nhow easily the thread
\nis broken
\nbetween the world of exile
\nto the one to belonging
\ncoming as you are and yet in the same
\nbreath,\u00a0 extending this acceptance to
\nothers as they come as they are.<\/p>\n

And
\nI found myself
\nsitting up
\nin the quiet pathway
\nof light, away from
\nseparateness to togetherness
\nwith the unique gem of being a partaker.<\/p>\n

For we have become partakers of Christ,
\nFor we have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit. Hebrews<\/p>\n

This is the bright home
\nin which I live, this is where
\nI ask my friends to come,<\/p>\n

This is the temple
\nof my new home
\nhaving made His home
\nas I belong to something greater
\nwhere I belong.<\/p>\n

I belong, I\u00a0 present my authentic, imperfect self,
\nI accept who I am, I embrace who is He is,
\nHe that is greater within me.<\/p>\n

There is no house
\nlike the house of belonging.<\/p>\n

Warapunga
\nInspired by Yahwe,\u00a0 D.Whyte, B. Brown<\/p>\n

Wishing you this same belonging!<\/p>\n

Philemon<\/p>\n

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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other Mother Teresa Good Monday Morning to this week 46 of 2019 Belonging; The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; in that sense, community takes away loneliness. Henri Nouwen Those who have … <\/p>\n

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