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• The quickest way to reach the sun and the light
  of day is not to run west, chasing after the
  setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the
  darkness until coming into the sunrise.
• A Grace Disguised, Gerald Sittser

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The Spaciousness of Reconciliation
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• The Spaciousness of Reconciliation
• What it is
• What it looks like
• What its not
• And what it can look like in your life

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Yashá I. What it is The Hebrew verb meaning
to make roomy, wide, sufficient, spacious to
help, deliver, rescue, or save. From that verb
comes the noun yeshua, which means salvation.
The word which the Greeks transliterated, Yesous
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Psalm 31 1 In you, O Lord, I seek refuge do not
let me ever be put to shame in your
righteousness deliver me. 2 Incline your ear to
me rescue me speedily. Be a rock of refuge for
me, a strong fortress to save me. 3 You are
indeed my rock and my fortress for your name's
sake lead me and guide me, 4 take me out of the
net that is hidden for me, for you are my refuge.
. . . you have set my feet in a broad place.
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Yashá

• II. How do you find it?
• Elijah (I Kings 193-18)

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Gods message of yashá to Elijah

• Take care of your physical and emotional being.
• There is Gods companionship, and there are
  messages in times of silence if you can stand
  being quiet, and if youll listen.
• Youre not alone. Faithful allies are all around.

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Yashá

• II. How do you find it?
• Zacchaeus (Luke 191-10)

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Gods message of yashá to Zacchaeus

• The welcoming spaciousness and reconciliation of
  yashá is available right here, right nowin this
  moment, and in this moment, and in this moment.
• And yashá will change your behavior via
  relationship.

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Yashá
III. What its not Matt. 713-14 Don't look for
shortcuts to God. The market is flooded with
surefire, easygoing formulas for a successful
life that can be practiced in your spare time.
Don't fall for that stuff, even though crowds of
people do. The way to life--to God!-is vigorous
and requires total attention.
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• She who knows not, and knows not that she knows
  not is a fool.
• Shun her.
• She who knows not and knows that she knows not is
  a disciple.
• Teach her.
• She who knows and knows not that she knows is a
  sleeper.
• Wake her.
• She who knows and knows that she knows is a
  leader.
• Follow her.
• Persian Proverb

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Yashá
IV. What it can look like in your life

• Genesis 11-5 NRSV
• In the beginning when God created the heavens and
  the earth, 2the earth was a formless void and
  darkness covered the face of the deep, while a
  wind from God swept over the face of the waters.
• 3 Then God said, Let there be light and there
  was light. 4And God saw that the light was good
  and God separated the light from the darkness.
  5God called the light Day, and the darkness he
  called Night. And there was evening and there was
  morning, the first day.

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• Yashá doesnt mean gaining control over chaos and
  unpredictability, it is . . .
• Choosing to be aware rather that checked out,
• to quietly expect further relationship, meaning,
  joy, and
• the freedom to make our lives as we will. Knowing
  we will all die. Knowing that meaning is not
  automatic.

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