People looked at me less dubiously and asked fewer questions that way.
But sometimes, when the pain was too great, I would detach myself from the thinking and just sits.Īfter a while, I found it was easier to sit with a cup of coffee and sip it slowly. And to deal with it, I did what I’d always done. I grew up and, as happens for most of us, life threw me some major disappointments. ‘Sometimes I sits and thinks,’ I’d say, ‘and sometimes I just sits.’ And whenever I was upset and my mum asked me what I was doing, I’d use this quote from one of the books. When I was much younger, I loved the Anne of Green Gables series. ‘Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits.’ Anne Hamiltonīrisbane, Australia 2019 1 Coffee and Other Forms of Self-sabotage My answer always is, ‘Identify your false refuge.’Īnd that is what this book aims to help you do. People often ask me, ‘How do I start? What is the first step I should take to come into my calling?’ Hopefully, you won’t even notice this device.
It emulates the word-number fusion that sits in the background of the gospels and epistles. As usual, as for all my books, this work is designed in numerical literary style, using a mathematical pattern to construct subsections. This book shows how seemingly innocent and innocuous false refuges can be. However, if you haven’t come into your calling and have experienced relentless spiritual opposition as you’ve tried to do so, it’s not a question of if you have a false refuge and a counterfeit covenant. And, even if that is a remote possibility, they are certain their covenant is with God, not with any unholy spirit. Many people are convinced they do not have a self-created haven away from God. Perhaps their most successful strategy is to tempt us into a false refuge. The first two volumes discuss the tactics of the spirit of Python and the spirit of Ziz to blockade the path into our calling. This is the fourth book in the series, Strategies for the Threshold. In fact, he makes it clear that there is a connection between such refuges and covenants with the enemy of our souls. People have been looking for sanctuary and shelter away from God since then-and even longer! Isaiah, however, contrasts the false refuge with the Cornerstone that God will lay in Zion. Originally, however, the concept comes from the prophet Isaiah and goes back over 2700 years. In recent years, practitioners of mindfulness, particularly in the Buddhist tradition, have picked up the term. It does not store any personal data.For almost two centuries, Christians have spoken of ‘false refuges’-self-created havens away from God. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance".
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