Cafe Chat
I am back from my vacation, and my "Cafe Chat" break. For the last several weeks I have been re posting some of my previous "Chat" questions. Thanks to all who participated in this meme during my hiatus. I missed interacting with you weekly, but hope to start visiting your blogs/websites again weekly.
"Comfort Zone". Two words or a phrase that has become very popular in our everyday language for years now. I remember when people first started talking about going out of their comfort zone. It wasn't long after that I would hear that phrase in the everyday chit chat of my circle of friends, as well as using the phrase myself.
Today I want to use this phrase as part of my question for our community. However, I would like to add a word to the beginning of the phrase. Let's think in terms of our "spiritual comfort zones". Let me explain a bit further.
We could use the phrase comfort zone for many things that don't really have anything to do with our spiritual lives, and when I say spiritual lives, I am specifically referring to our Christian walk with Jesus. It could be out of our comfort zone to attend a function alone, but that situation would really have nothing to do with our Christian walk.
On vacation I experienced something that I would say was out of my "spiritual comfort zone". When thinking about the question this week I came to believe that as a Christian I should almost always, maybe always, be out of my "spiritual comfort zone" when it comes to life. If I am operating out of my "comfort zone" than that means that Jesus can work through me to do something that either I can't accomplish, or at least something that fear holds me back from accomplishing through Jesus. When Jesus operates through me to perform something I cannot do, then He gets the credit and the Glory. That it how is should be.
So today I ask you to tell me about a time you operated out of your "spiritual comfort zone"? If you are finding it hard to come up with an example, why do you think that is the case?
(FYI: Today I used the term "spiritual comfort zone"... I am using the term lightly to ask a question, not to develop my own phrase)
Blessings, Kim
Labels: Cafe Chat, Kim's Articles
posted by Toknowhim @ 12:31 AM
4 Comments:
This was very thought-provoking. My response is here.
Kim, thanks so much for the great question! I loved it because I'm in a time of operating out of my comfort zone now! I wrote about it here http://undertransformation.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/cafe-chat-spir…l-comfort-zone/
Blessings and Peace ~~ Aurora
Nice topic, Kim. Here's my post: http://amothersangst.blogspot.com/2009/08/cafe-chat-august-14th.html
Here is mine! Great topic this week!
http://rstepp.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/cafe-chat-spiritual-comfort-zones/
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