MIC Check
Today’s Most Important Challenge is…
- Recognizing and reconciling
- The Guardians who sequestered pain
- To protect Function
- By creating Orphans
- Starting with mine…
Immanuel Approach Memo
I am… a crowd of midgets
Deeply angry
Superficially happy
We appear calm and peaceful
As long as we keep our distance
But if any of us gets too close
To each other
Or anyone else
We noodle-ize
Becoming tall and thin
And kicking people surreptitiously in the shins
Until they go away
I look for Jesus.
He is the Good Shepherd
He built the wall
To keep us safe
We are His people
The sheep of His pasture
I didn’t see His wall
I didn’t know we were safe
That is why I built my own
I didn’t see His wall
I didn’t know we were safe
That is why I built my own
He walks among us
Crouching…
No, shrinking
To look one of us in the eye
Embrace two of us at a time
Some of my midgets merge
Others hold hands and run off to play together
None of them are alone
Jesus rises
And heads to the gate
He speaks a Word
Perhaps The Word
We crowd around Him
All joyfully in contact
With Him
Each other
Ourselves
No longer an angry mob
But a joyful family
An army of reconciliation
Ready
To go save the world
As He saved us
As He saves us
Reflection
I feel…
- United
- Fearless
- Empowered
- Unalone
- Like the Body of Christ
Scripture
“The time is coming when one of David’s descendants will be the signal for the people of all nations to come together. They will follow his advice, and his own nation will become famous.
Isaiah 11:10-16 CEV
When that day comes, the Lord will again reach out his mighty arm and bring home his people who have survived in Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Ethiopia, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the land along the coast.
He will give a signal to the nations, and he will bring together the refugees from Judah and Israel, who have been scattered all over the earth. Israel will stop being jealous of Judah, and Judah will no longer be the enemy of Israel.
Instead, they will get together and attack the Philistines in the west. Then they will defeat the Edomites, the Moabites, and the Ammonites in the east. They will rule those people and take from them whatever they want.
The Lord will dry up the arm of the Red Sea near Egypt, and he will send a scorching wind to divide the Euphrates River into seven streams that anyone can step across. Then for his people who survive, there will be a good road from Assyria, just as there was a good road for their ancestors when they left Egypt.”
Radically Happy 
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