Benjamin's Tribe: Don't be petty

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Don't be petty

This is my prayer today against all my pettiness.

This is my war today against small-mindedness.

Slay narrow minded thoughts. Stop trying to bring God down to your simple outlook. Don't try and bring the beauty, difficulty, and complexity of the messiness of life down to something that only your pea brain can manage. God won't be limited, why do I try and limit Him to the plane of my finitude? Let God be God in your life and in the world. His messiness is better than my attempts to control.

Stop trying to force God's wondrous multiplicity (the Trinity) into my unitarian tidiness of my 1x1x1 comfortable space.

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