Me: Who were you talking to Prodigal?
Prodigal: Someone who is very critical of me.
Me: Glad that wasn’t my conversation.
Prodigal: Yeah, I’d sooner dive into a bed of poison ivy than to do that again.
This is from the book Beyond OurSelves by Catherine Marshall
If the idea of Christ living at the center of life frightens us, it may be because we fear that by handling over self-will we would then become spineless creatures, colorless carbon-copy personalities. We need not be afraid on either count. Actually, it’s when selfishness and self-will progressively take over in our society that we become carbon copies of one another. When an adolescent is still unsure of his selfhood, he has a horror of being in any way different from his friends. When adults are not in the least concerned about pleasing God, they are desperately concerned about pleasing each other. When we have few inner resources, we hold up masks to hide our poverty. And all the masks seem to be turned out by the same factory—suburbia, the “organization man,” “the man in the gray flannel suit,” all aided by mass advertising, extended by the media of mass communication.
Proverbs 16:9
The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD established his steps.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
