Last week I shared my Life Canon…
I’d like to add the following (which I recently added to the sidebar of my blog)…
I’m not sure what you’d call this, but I adapted it from something Brian McLaren wrote in Everything Must Change. It started as a challenge for our community group and its become more of a personal challenge to me each day – especially with it posted on my cubicle wall.
imagine if suddenly:
rather than seeking revenge, you sought reconciliation
rather than repaying violence with violence, you sought creative transforming nonviolent alternatives
rather than focusing on external conformity to moral codes, you were internally transformed by love
rather than loving insiders and hating outsiders, you welcomed outsiders into a new “us” and “we”
rather than anxiety about money or security or pleasure, you trusted ourselves to the care of God
rather than living for wealth, you lived for God who loves all people, including our enemies
rather than hating our enemies and competitors, you loved them and did unto them not as they have done unto you – or before they do unto you – but as you wish they would do for you
So what is your Life Canon? I tag: Thomas, Laurie, Brandi, Dollye, Eric, Brian, Smiley and Kevin.
(here are the rules)
