Why LoGOFF?

                                   

There are many good reasons to LoGOFF, but for me, it's all about restoring brokenness.  

I believe God wants to restore brokenness in all it's forms.  That means restoring my relationship with Him, restoring my relationship with the people who make my food, restoring the relationships between employers and employees, restoring the relationship between people and the earth, restoring systems of poverty that lead to oppression.  That's a pretty tall order!

Even as I look at my first few days of trying to LoGOFF, I realize that I haven't done it perfectly, and I know I won't.  But I think that's one of the reasons I'm excited about this - because I can't just rely on my ability to try harder and do it perfectly.  Instead, I have to rely on God's grace, and I believe that God offers all the grace I need.  Because Christ lived a perfect life, and took all my failure on himself in death, he has the right to offer me grace, and he does it generously.  Acknowledging the grace of God, and seeking his power to change my heart is the only way I'm going to end up seeing this year as "successful".

That's why I think LoGOFF is an inside out process.  As my relationships with God is restored, that will change me - my thoughts, my attitudes, my desires - and that should continually change the way I consume.  I pray He will cause me to care less and less about my selfish desires, and more and more about doing what He does, and becoming a restorer of brokenness. 
                               
Psalm 80:19
Restore us, Lord God Almighty;
make your face shine on us,
that we may be saved.