Comments on: thoughts on the Kingdom [May Synchroblog] http://ellenharoutunian.com/2009/05/26/thoughts-on-the-kingdom/ Seeking our Living Orthodoxy Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:52:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Skip Newby http://ellenharoutunian.com/2009/05/26/thoughts-on-the-kingdom/#comment-531 Skip Newby Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:21:26 +0000 http://ellenharoutunian.com/?p=1364#comment-531 Well Ellen, I have affirmed your gift so many times, that I'm afraid you might perceive it as flattery. But it isn't. I may have to stop reading you because you keep shaking me up. Imagine that, you're able to shake up an old tramp like me. You definately are in league with Jesus. No wonder someone would accuse you of being a false prophet. A thought on your Pearl image. Not only would a person be without resources to sustain life if they sold all they had to buy the field for the gain of the Pearl (so we fear), but the Pearl is life, the Really Real Life, the Kingdom. I can remember being taught that it was a good thing to "sell all" for the Pearl, since the reciprocal returns would be great. More selfish motivation. Keep on calling us out of self, and into the Kingdom. Peace. Well Ellen,
I have affirmed your gift so many times, that I’m afraid you might perceive it as flattery. But it isn’t. I may have to stop reading you because you keep shaking me up. Imagine that, you’re able to shake up an old tramp like me. You definately are in league with Jesus. No wonder someone would accuse you of being a false prophet.

A thought on your Pearl image. Not only would a person be without resources to sustain life if they sold all they had to buy the field for the gain of the Pearl (so we fear), but the Pearl is life, the Really Real Life, the Kingdom. I can remember being taught that it was a good thing to “sell all” for the Pearl, since the reciprocal returns would be great. More selfish motivation. Keep on calling us out of self, and into the Kingdom.
Peace.

]]> By: LeeAnn http://ellenharoutunian.com/2009/05/26/thoughts-on-the-kingdom/#comment-510 LeeAnn Fri, 29 May 2009 03:07:35 +0000 http://ellenharoutunian.com/?p=1364#comment-510 "So the Kingdom seems to be a posture of the heart – perhaps a heart willing to stoop very low to enter." That sentence gives the image of submission and the beginning of letting "our reality die". “So the Kingdom seems to be a posture of the heart – perhaps a heart willing to stoop very low to enter.” That sentence gives the image of submission and the beginning of letting “our reality die”.

]]> By: The Kingdom of God Is At Hand « Grace Rules Weblog http://ellenharoutunian.com/2009/05/26/thoughts-on-the-kingdom/#comment-505 The Kingdom of God Is At Hand « Grace Rules Weblog Thu, 28 May 2009 02:17:36 +0000 http://ellenharoutunian.com/?p=1364#comment-505 [...] Ellen Haroutunian of Seeking our Living Orthodoxy on thoughts on the Kingdom [...] [...] Ellen Haroutunian of Seeking our Living Orthodoxy on thoughts on the Kingdom [...]

]]> By: gracerules http://ellenharoutunian.com/2009/05/26/thoughts-on-the-kingdom/#comment-504 gracerules Thu, 28 May 2009 02:13:35 +0000 http://ellenharoutunian.com/?p=1364#comment-504 Ellen - I really liked this post and all the ways you challenged us to not just see but to enter the Kingdom of God right here, right now. I could actually feel your energy as I was reading. I loved that you said: "To engage the Really Real, our reality must die" that shook me up a little bit - to think about how my reality is blocking my way into the "really real". I'll be carrying that thought along with me for quite some time. PS I' going to add your link to my post now. Ellen – I really liked this post and all the ways you challenged us to not just see but to enter the Kingdom of God right here, right now. I could actually feel your energy as I was reading.
I loved that you said:
“To engage the Really Real, our reality must die”
that shook me up a little bit – to think about how my reality is blocking my way into the “really real”. I’ll be carrying that thought along with me for quite some time.
PS I’ going to add your link to my post now.

]]> By: Beth Patterson http://ellenharoutunian.com/2009/05/26/thoughts-on-the-kingdom/#comment-502 Beth Patterson Wed, 27 May 2009 13:16:55 +0000 http://ellenharoutunian.com/?p=1364#comment-502 Dear Ellen-- This was an excellent post. There were some moments while savoring it this morning that I felt the kingdom so close to me that it was a breathing, living thing...thank you for that freshness, that willingness to risk. I will look forward to hearing more about the dialogue you had with someone calling you a false prophet. I'm sure we'll learn much from your experience. Thank you--and thank you for your kind words on my entry for this synchroblog. Much appreciated! Dear Ellen–
This was an excellent post. There were some moments while savoring it this morning that I felt the kingdom so close to me that it was a breathing, living thing…thank you for that freshness, that willingness to risk.

I will look forward to hearing more about the dialogue you had with someone calling you a false prophet. I’m sure we’ll learn much from your experience.

Thank you–and thank you for your kind words on my entry for this synchroblog. Much appreciated!

]]> By: Michelle http://ellenharoutunian.com/2009/05/26/thoughts-on-the-kingdom/#comment-501 Michelle Wed, 27 May 2009 05:07:38 +0000 http://ellenharoutunian.com/?p=1364#comment-501 Several of my sisters in Christ among the CTFers and I don't see eye to eye on many things. I treasure this! I seek to understand what they think, especially if it's different from what I think. If we still disagree, that's fine with me. But apparently that's not "normal". Pity. Several of my sisters in Christ among the CTFers and I don’t see eye to eye on many things. I treasure this! I seek to understand what they think, especially if it’s different from what I think. If we still disagree, that’s fine with me. But apparently that’s not “normal”. Pity.

]]> By: Lizzy Wagner http://ellenharoutunian.com/2009/05/26/thoughts-on-the-kingdom/#comment-500 Lizzy Wagner Tue, 26 May 2009 20:20:25 +0000 http://ellenharoutunian.com/?p=1364#comment-500 Ellen. Beautiful thoughts. Interesting that you went to the need for courage at the end - I feel like God has been saying - pray for trust, faith, and courage. Uh-oh! Ellen. Beautiful thoughts. Interesting that you went to the need for courage at the end – I feel like God has been saying – pray for trust, faith, and courage. Uh-oh!

]]> By: ellenharoutunian http://ellenharoutunian.com/2009/05/26/thoughts-on-the-kingdom/#comment-499 ellenharoutunian Tue, 26 May 2009 20:03:40 +0000 http://ellenharoutunian.com/?p=1364#comment-499 Immediacy - yes! It is Kingdom NOW. :-) Thanks! Immediacy – yes! It is Kingdom NOW. :-) Thanks!

]]> By: timvictor http://ellenharoutunian.com/2009/05/26/thoughts-on-the-kingdom/#comment-498 timvictor Tue, 26 May 2009 19:56:30 +0000 http://ellenharoutunian.com/?p=1364#comment-498 Some great thoughts. I do feel that it lacks a bit of the immediacy conveyed by Jesus and the early disciples but I like the phrase "really real". Some great thoughts. I do feel that it lacks a bit of the immediacy conveyed by Jesus and the early disciples but I like the phrase “really real”.

]]> By: jeff http://ellenharoutunian.com/2009/05/26/thoughts-on-the-kingdom/#comment-497 jeff Tue, 26 May 2009 18:57:14 +0000 http://ellenharoutunian.com/?p=1364#comment-497 great thoughts! great thoughts!

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