Why Two Circles?

"What if our lives weren't designed to be divided into pieces, but to be made whole?

​To have a center. A true north. The one thing that everything else revolved around."

-Excerpt from Make Good Tables: Work. Family. Rest. And why God cares about more than just Sunday.

 
​The two circles on the cover of the book represent the sacred and the secular. Or, as I describe it in the book, the "God things" and all the "other things."

This seems to be our default setting, as we attempt to compartmentalize our life into these two categories.

The things we think God cares about. And then all of the other things.

Prayer. Scripture. Church.

These are the "God things."

Homework. Sports. Dishes.

These are all the "other things."

Maybe we compartmentalize our lives this way because we think it's easier to control.

And like pieces of a pie, we try to give every area of our life something.

As long as we give God a piece of the pie, we are good.

But that's not how God designed us to live.

We were designed to live a whole, integrated life.

A life where we have a foundation. A cornerstone. A center.

A life where God has every piece, and God is in every piece of our life.

When Jesus becomes our center and our foundation, everything we do begins to flow from Him.

See, God desires for us to see every part of our life as holy, sacred, and worship unto Him.

The two circles on the cover of the book represent a once separated, divided, compartmentalized life coming together to be a whole, integrated life.

A life where prayer is holy, but so is changing diapers.

A life where Sunday is sacred, but so is Monday.

A life where you worship in a church building, but also in your home.

​This is the life we were created to live.

A life no longer divided by sacred and secular. Or "God things" and "other things."

But a life made whole. Rooted in and founded on Jesus.

And when our lives become whole in Him, everything we do becomes sacred and holy and an act of worship.

Jesus fills it all. And it all flows from Him.

I believe if we can make this shift from two circles to one:

• We might not live with a mentality that God cares about my prayer time, but not as much about cooking a meal for my family.

• We might begin to see that being present and helping our children with their homework is just as sacred as gathering in a church building.

• We might begin to do our work with excellence and integrity because we know who we do it for, and we know that our work is worship.

If we can make this shift, I believe we will begin to experience the full, abundant life Jesus has on offer to us.

It's time to let the two circles become one.

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