Darin shared this at the end of Sunday's service at the Center

:: author is anonymous

When you are forgotten, or neglected,

or purposely set at naught, and you

don't sting or hurt with the insult or

the oversight, but your heart is happy,

being counted worthy to suffer for Yashua,

That is dying to self.

When your good is evil spoken of,

when your wishes are misunderstood

your advise disregarded, your opinions

ridiculed, and you refuse to let anger

rise in your heart, or even defend

yourself, but take it all in patient, loving silence,

That is dying to self..

When you lovingly and patiently bear

any disorder, any irregularity, any

unpunctuality, or any annoyance; when

you stand face to face with waste, folly,

extravagance, spiritual insensibility-

and endure it as Yashua endured,

That is dying to self.

When you are content with any food,

any offering, any climate, any society,

any raiment, any interruption

by the will of Yaweh,

That is dying to self.

When you never care to refer to your-

self in conversation, or to record your

own good works, or itch after commendations,

when you can truly love to be unknown,

That is dying to self.

When you can see your brother prosper

and have his needs met and can honestly

rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy,

nor question Yahweh while your own

needs are greater and in desperate circumstances,

That is dying to self.

When you can receive correction and

reproof from one of less stature than your-

self and can humbly submit inwardly as

well as outwardly, finding no rebellion

or resentment rising up within your heart,

That is dying to self.

Are you dead yet?

In these last days, the Spirit would bring us

to the stake "That I may know HIM, and the

power of HIS resurrection, and the fellowship

of HIS sufferings, being made conformable

unto HIS death."