In Sunday School, when I was little, we sang this song:
"I'm in right out right up right down, I'm happy all the time.
I'm in right out right up right down, I'm happy all the time.
Since Jesus Christ came in and cleansed my heart from sinnnnn..
I'm in right out right up right down right happy all the time!"
When we said "in" we pointed to ourselves, when we said "out" we pointed straight ahead, when we said "up" we went up on our toes, when we said "down" we squatted to the ground and when we said "happy all the time" we stood and clapped.
Does anyone else remember that Sunday School song with those motions?
Well today I was thinking about that song, but I decided that what it's really like to love and follow Jesus is sort of like this:
"I'm inside out, I'm upside down, I'm re-grouping all the time. I'm inside out, I'm upside down, I'm re-grouping all the time. As Jesus reveals himself to me, and causes my blind eyes to seeeeee....I'm inside out, I'm upside down, I'm re-grouping all the time."
I'm still working on the new motions. Maybe a backbend with an ankle grab on the "inside out" and a headstand on the "upside down" then an upright yoga pose on the "re-grouping"...
The point is: I consistently find myself in situations where I am challenged to think about what it is I believe and what the Bible really says, who God really is and what it means to be a follower of Jesus.
Lately I'm discovering how egocentric I can be- focused on myself and what I want and how much more freeing and loving it is to be Christcentric- focusing on Jesus and thinking in terms of how a thought or action or word effects the cause of Christ instead of how each thought or action or word effects ME.
Additionally, I met my two beautiful sisters at a park for a picnic today and we ate some sandwiches, talked non-stop and walked among the trees marveling at the colorful leaves. We prayed together for each other and for our families and then went our three separate ways back to our own homes. I love my sisters. We don't get together often enough, but when we do it is very special.
