Afternoon Inspiration

From the book " The God Who Smokes" by Timothy Stoner -

May you find your life in losing it.

May you live your life by dying, daily.

May you give it all and keep nothing for yourself.

May your treasure chest be filled to overflowing

with the priceless crowns of sacrificial devotion.

May you give yourself away

in a joyful and risky abandon.

May you follow the Lamb,

even if He takes you up a hill and onto a brutal cross.

Especially if He takes you there.

May you turn your back on safety and comfort and

predictable and soft

and pour yourself out like a drink offering of love

on the least of these, on the most of these,

for the death and the life of these.

May you spend what you cannot keep

to gain what you can never lose.

May you awake to live His dream,

not yours or your country's, nor your family's.

And may you rejoice to hear the applause,

to which is a weight of eternal glory

to heavy to bear.