Living the Lark

I don’t quite know why I do it to myself …

When I can’t sleep, or the pressure of the work at hand causes me to retreat, or I go researching something which long ago I lost sight of and can’t for the life of me remember … That’s when I find myself doing it.

What? I find myself reading the rants of various “Christian” perspectives from those with fundamentalist leanings or those with emergent-as-a-system leanings. I find myself picking apart weak theology, or shallow ecclesiology, or emotionally clouded apologetics.

And then to decompress and recover the minutes wasted as I vicariously follow the intra-Christian absurdities that plague the reputation of Jesus-followers, I flip on my iTunes and here’s what plays: “The Lark Ascending.”

And my entire being stirs for authentic life lived in Christ. Just now as the lark swirls higher into the clouds with my sense of reality girded under its wings, I look at my dim and empty living room, remembering what took place here 24 hours ago:

A small group of 10 friends … some we’d known a few months, some just a day … gathered for a time of food, fellowship, and simply sharing life. We laughed, got to know each other better, shared space and time in a sacred way. We lived the lark … we’re still living the lark.

And the Spirit encourages me that life lived is the thing … the most important thing … the very thing for which God became a baby writhing in a cow’s food digs … the very reason God yielded the sacred life to a public execution … the very reason Christ took up his life again and breathed on the assembled his Spirit of grace and truth.

SO TELL ME:
Are you living the life? Or are you avoiding it?

SO TELL ME SOMETHING ELSE:
If you are living the life … How? Why?

Brian Niece
www.brianniece.com
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