Let it flow through,

Wednesday July 4th, Galatians 5: 19-21 It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on. Paul, it sounds so bad when you put it that way. All I was trying to do was watch out for old number one. Or perhaps all I was trying to do was insert myself as number one instead of holding you in my heart as number one. Here is the way it goes, love comes from God, it flows through our hearts and into the world around us. If we put ourselves as number one, all that flows out is what is in our heart naturally, and that is not always so good.