Anxiety vs. Love – Part 2

Anxiety vs. Love

Products ———-People

Control ————-Contemplation

For many of us, contemplation is one of those loaded words, a word that conjures up thoughts of Eastern mysticism, yoga poses, and monosyllabic chants (and maybe even headaches from thinking so hard!)

What is contemplation really though?

The word comes from the Latin word, templum, which means to seperate out. If we think about this in the terms of anxiety, love, control and contemplation what we end up with is the idea that we always immerse ourselves in the nitty gritty details of what is going on in our ministry; if we always try to have control over every little detail of what is going on we will certainly end up living in the land of anxiety.

On the other hand though, if we are able to step back from what is swirling around us in the midst of our ministry programs, separate ourselves from the rush, the hurry, and our near-sighted focus on the details we will be in a much better position to live out of love.

If we can get our our thinking off of control of every situation and we can begin to contemplate what God is doing there, we’ll be leaning toward living from a baseline of love.

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