Radically Happy

Grieve your way to joy.

MIC Check

Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Learning the manners of (Erik) Fish
• For becoming fishers of men

Held In Scripture (Hosting Ignatian Spirituality)

Continued from As A High Shelter

I see Jesus.

He is… singing.

Leading the resurrected
In a song of lament
For me

Not just their grief
At my passing

Or their mourning
Over the harm
I had caused

But also
Empathy
At the price I paid

And sadness
For their harshness
Towards me

I see myself.

I am… fading away.

My spirit
Ascending to the heavens

My body
Disappearing into dust

The tree
Of my sacrifice…

Withers away.

No longer needed
To hold up the bridge

For others
Have made their own sacrifices
In remembrance of Him
While forgetting mine

I see My Father.

He stretches open the heavens
To receive my soul

Saying:

“Take a seat
And watch
You won’t want to miss…”

“How the story ends!”

To be concluded

Response

What did I experience Jesus as?

• Heartbroken
• Commiserating
• Honoring

Consolation

How did I move toward Jesus?

• Letting go
• Receiving
• Hearing
• Entering
• Stretching
• Dying

Scripture

“Awake, O my soul, with the music of his splendor-song! Arise, my soul, and sing his praises!
My worship will awaken the dawn, greeting the daybreak with my songs of praise!
Wherever I go, I will thank you, my God. Among all the nations they will hear my praise songs to you.
Your love is so extravagant it reaches to the heavens; your faithfulness so astonishing it stretches to the sky!”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭57‬:‭8‬-‭10‬ ‭TPT‬‬

Inspired by Prayers on Fire for Men