Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. -Psalm 143:8
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as a way in which they should break, so be it." -C.S. Lewis The Four Loves
Friday, February 22, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
tuning our instruments
"Meanwhile, of course, we are merely tuning our instruments. The tuning up of the orchestra can be itself delightful, but only to those who can, in some measure, however little, anticipate the symphony." - C.S. Lewis
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Falling Slowly
this is from my favorite indie movie of the year. A little diddy called "Once" and this is my favorite song from it...
D.A.N.C.E.
If this is not one of the coolest videos you've ever seen....then I can't help you haha (to whatever other person besides Christopher who actually reads this blog)
Trust?
One of the definitions of trust is, "Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing." In the psalms trust is something that is brought up again and again as the one thing you can always do with God. That you can trust Him.
Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you. -Psalm 9:10
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. -Psalm 28:7
But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God." -Psalm 31:14
Many are the woes of the wicked, but the LORD's unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts in him. -Psalm 32:10
In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me? -Psalm 56:4
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. -Psalm 143:8
I was thinking today about this calling or a strong conviction I had when I was 15 years old that I was called into the ministry. I'm nearly 10 years into this journey. My idea of ministry is not what it was those 10 years ago. I know the final step I need to make to complete this journey of rediscovery is to just trust. That last Psalm, 143:8, is where my heart is, that if the LORD my God will "show the way I should go" that I'd go wherever he wants me to go. I'm not looking for the next best thing or somewhere else to go. I just have not taken that leap of faith and gone through the struggle of truly finding my calling. Which is why I wonder why I am even writing this. I'm struggling with what to do with my life. I just now my heart won't be content until I give myself over to something bigger then myself. And I'm just challenged to give my everything to the Kingdom of God that Jesus talked about...
Friday, February 1, 2008
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