Overcoming a Lack of Love

For those who were at service on Sunday, a few bullet points to jog your memory:

• "Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind." Romans 12:2
• Renewing your mind switches you from worldly vision and identification to spiritual vision and identification
• Kare Castle tells of being a young single mother and how she thought being married would erase her shame
• Once married, her husband became her perceived redeemer and she was unwilling to let go of that
• Kare's husband had a serious addiction problem
• After years and years of broken promises about getting well, and Kare's denial that her husband was seriously addicted, she started attending church to find spiritual peace
• Kare began a intentional, regular, spiritual practice
• Her church offered a class bases on Maria Nemeth's book, The Energy of Money
• The underlying philosophy of that book is, the way we handle money is the way we handle life.
• Kare recognized, "I have handled money completely unconsciously and that is exactly how I have been living my life - unconsciously." 
• In a moment of complete surrender she said a prayer that changed her life; "Dear God, please wake me up."
• The next morning she found her husband lying in a pool of his own excrement, unconscious from a drug overdose
• Three days later as she was at the hospital listening to her husband's apologies and confession of his horrifying behavior related to sex addition, the Voice for God beame progressively louder, overpowering all other sounds in the room
• The Voice said to her, "All is well. Your peace and safety lie in your relationship with me."
• Kare said she believed the Holy Spirit spoke through her when she responded to her husband, saying, "You have done some terrible things, but I know the truth of who you are. You are a child of God and for that reason I forgive you."
• In that moment of intense clarity for Kare, she made the choice for the experience and the expression of love through forgiveness
• When you surender, when you step back and let God lead the way you will become a happier, more peaceful, incredible you!
• Let love radiate into all the opportunities that come to you from both your inside world and what we think of as the outside world.
• What better life than one that is filled with God's Love?

//////////////////////////////

To read the complete text of "Overcoming a Lack of Love" from Sunday, July 8th, click here.