barefoot summer
June 25, 2009
I just got back from swinging the park situated around the corner from my house. It was finally cool enough to go outside and be able to breathe properly–so I couldn’t help myself. I embraced my inner childhood…and my mother giggled on my way out the door.
Some days, like today, I think it’s fun to embrace my inner childishness. Not only is swinging something I did when I was in elementary school but it’s also something I associate with thinking and praying time. Odd, no? Well, I put fun, thinking and praying together tonight and had a delightful time in the park. I feel ALIVE.
I love this passage. This may be my favorite “alive” passage.
“And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 2:1-7
