I asked myself yesterday what in the world I would do to keep myself occupied while in Tupelo for a couple of weeks..so as summer begins, so does the season of writing. 

Gravity: A natural force that gives weight to any object with mass. In middle school, we learned gravity to be the reason that everything that goes up must, eventually, come down.  So try to plunge yourself into the mind of a metaphorical thinker, and apply gravity to more than physical matter. What if our emotions, attitudes, spirit, and even faith..was affected by gravity. That would mean that we are always being pulled back down. To the world. 

  "Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to it's level of      immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you, so you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." 

Romans 12:2

In a way, for myself at least, this puts into perspective how relentless the world is, as well as how reluctant I can be in resisting it. Because of this "gravity", there is a constant force always working against us. 

          

           but,

how glorious of a Savior we own that already crushed that agent of weight that we, as ignorant beings, view as so impending.  A lesson I am vividly and humbly learning right now is that I am free from this gravity. So i choose to sing.

"I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh..and I will be your God."

Ezekiel 36:25-28