Archive for April 2007

Show Me YOU!

April 26, 2007 by Rev. Sean McMillan.

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 I know that most of us were taught that the last book of the bible is Revelation, but if the bible is understood to be the narrative account of God’s continued interaction and love for the human family, then the last book of the bible is you. 

Each of us are breathing manifestations of the goodness of life and God. And while it is true that not every day has been full of sunshine, it is no less the case that life is good—difficult sometimes but good nonetheless. Behind the smiles we wear and the clothes we sport is a remarkable story. Every person you know has come through great trials and triumphs to get to where they are now, and in spite of how we feel sometimes, none of us are empty pages moving through life without a story to tell. People think they know you because they see you every day—but they have no idea. They could never conceive of how much grace and love you have had to summon just to turn your life in the right direction, to say nothing of the courage it took for you to admit that you needed a change  in the first place. Written within the fabric of your days is a beautiful narrative of what it means to love and then to loose what you have loved, of what it means to die and then come back from the dead, and of what it means to be born again.

 Anybody can read about hope but people don’t believe what they read, they believe what they see. It’s one thing to tell a man or a woman to read about faith in the bible but it’s another matter altogether for you to show someone what faith actually looks like as it is revealed to us in the unfolding narrative of your life.  When I want to see love—show me your face. When I want to know what deliverance is really all about—show me your face. And when I need to see God—show me your face because he hides his beauty in your smile.Tell your story every chance you get because when you least expect it– someone will be listening.

What’s your story?

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Rejection Is Never Easy

April 19, 2007 by Rev. Sean McMillan.

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Rejection is never easy; but when you understand that you can get what you want somewhere else the experience of being rejected looses its power. People who reject you do so because they believe that you are not good enough to be apart of their world. And when you think about all the people who have ever rejected you the one thing they all have in common is that belief that they had something you need; and while this might in fact be the case you must always remember that they are not the only ones who have it. There are 300 million people in the United States of America and billions of people in the world and when one person or group rejects you it is important to remember that there’s got to be somebody—somewhere who would love to have the chance to give you what they won’t.

The real problem of rejection is not the fact that people say no, but rather the inconvenient truth that too often we build our lives on the hope of them saying yes. And whenever you have too much invested in yes—no has the power to destroy you. I have seen people beg their way into other people’s lives. I have watched others try to buy their way into relationships but in the end you can’t make people love you. And why would you want to?
 
The fact that you have to beg your way into a situation is probably a good indication of the fact that you were never supposed to be there in the first place. You don’t have to beg anybody for anything because what God has for you is for you. When it’s yours you know it.
 

Let them say no. Let them walk away. Let them reject you because as long as God is saying yes…it doesn’t matter who says no. When you don’t need to be in—it doesn’t bother you when people lock you out. It is when you learn how to walk alone that you become author of your own horoscope. Stop worrying about them and write your own future.
 
May the oil of your life be full of his grace,
 
All my best!

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Dying to Live

April 5, 2007 by Rev. Sean McMillan.

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Martin Luther King Jr. once remarked that if a man (or a woman) has not found something to die for he isn’t fit to live; and while it is true that we must all decided what our ends will be I happen to believe that the measure of a man (or a woman) is ultimately defined by the things that keep us connected to the spirit of life. For me, the definitive question of our humanity does not pertain to death, but rather, to the things that inspire us to live because, in a manner of speaking, dying is easy.

 

This is not to suggest that dying does not demand sacrifice but the sacrifice of death can only be made once. This is not the case for living. The things that make living possible demand a daily sacrifice; they demand that we renew our commitment to the joy of being alive each morning that we rise to face the dawning of a new day. Living is hard; and those who specialize in the practice of this sacred art must first be inspired to create their day from the remains of the night before. Most of the people we know are not bad people but they suffer from a lack of inspiration and when there is nothing to motivate you progress is a possibility but not a certainty.

Never judge your life by how many breaths you take because a good life is determined by all the moments that take your breath away.

What makes you want to get out of the bed in the morning? What are you living for? What inspires you?

 

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