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		<title>Are You Balanced&#8211;Part 2</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little while ago, I wrote about being a balanced person. I took a break from school for a couple of days and picked up the book, The Importance of Being Foolish, by Brennan Manning.&#160; The book is a great reminded that Jesus doesn&#8217;t call us to a &#34;feel good&#34; Christianity or to a Christianity [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A little while ago, I wrote about <a href="http://myepicjourney.com/2009/02/18/are-you-balanced/">being a balanced person</a>.</p>
<p>I took a break from school for a couple of days and picked up the book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Importance-Being-Foolish-Think-Jesus/dp/0060834536/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1237384979&amp;sr=8-1">The Importance of Being Foolish</a>, by Brennan Manning.&#160; </p>
<p><a href="http://myepicjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/book.jpg"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="240" alt="book" src="http://myepicjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/book-thumb.jpg" width="160" align="left" border="0" /></a> </p>
<p>The book is a great reminded that Jesus doesn&#8217;t call us to a &quot;feel good&quot; Christianity or to a Christianity that is just about TALK.&#160; Instead, Jesus calls us to a life of action.&#160; Action to love and serve the poor and ungodly to fight against the egotism and arrogance of people who talk about God more than do things for God.</p>
<p>In the very first chapter of the book, Manning makes this statement about balance, <em>&quot;A truly balanced person retains a capacity for wonder and the willingness to express it in the very confession of creaturehood, the spontaneous acknowledgment that his is a human being and not a god, a being with limitations who, far from having embraced infinity, is happily and hopelessly engulfed by it.&quot;</em></p>
<p>Quick thoughts:</p>
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<li>When was the last time you just allowed your mind to wonder about the incredibleness of who God is and why He created you? (Psalm 139.13-18)</li>
<li>When was the last time you reminded yourself of the who you are and who God is?&#160; (Isaiah 6.1-8)</li>
<li>When was the last time you put that all together and lived a life in harmony with the personality and characteristics of God? (Philippians 2.5-7)</li>
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