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So we just set up the 24-7 prayer room, starting tomorrow night in sunny St Andrews...quite a lot of slots still empty- maybe something to do with the fact we didn't tell anyone it would happen until this weekend.
me and God are really not on first name terms at the moment, its hard.  Hard hard hard.  I have a lot of agenda's and i realised that having an agenda with God is as destructive to your relationship as it is when you have an agenda with another person ('i want to make them love me', 'i want them to understand my 'signals'', 'i want to have what they have').  I guess it's nothing to do with 24-7, but me and naomi were chatting today about 'unconditional love'- especially in relation to people who are- how should i put it, very easy to love.  I think unconditional love is one of those infinite regress issues though,


-'I love them because i want something' is bad....
-I love them because they are lovable....is also not unconditional because it is a product of my opinion
-I love them because they are worth loving...i don't think i could honestly say God has changed me enough that i see everyone as 'worth' the same- they are still 'worth' something in relation to how i feel about them

....So the regress has to lead back to unconditional love not for individual people, but in general- for anyone and everyone, otherwise it isn't unconditional, it's conditional on their being who they are to me.  Im just not sure ill ever get there, but will my love for anyone ever have integrity if i don't?  Just a thought...


Anyway, 24-7...excited i think.  There are loads of people i want to come along...i hope they do...i will try not to leave my journal there again this time...slightly awkward when your 'top 10' gets published round town (ONLY KIDDING- i only have a top 1...it begins with 'J'....)


Bye for now
DebOrah


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8.2.06 00:15
 


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naomi / Website (10.2.06 18:26)
loving selflessly - is it possible? i've realised how easily i can care (and pray) for people as long as they care for me and acknowledge me back. thats not the way it should work though is it? i've realised though that to love selflessly is actually really risky but it hurts to love and not be loved in return. it really hurts. i'm slowly slowly starting to realise though that this is how Jesus loves me (emphasising the 'slowly') and i think deep down i actually do want to love other people like this too. what would it be like to love someone or in fact, everyone, so much that i would sometimes choose to do things that don't just make me feel good or feel special in return. loving selflessly, it's so hard but would be wonderful to do. it's kind of like sport...it will hurt but it will be a satisfying, worth-while pain.
naomi

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