heart choices

"Even slavery can free other things within us...if we submit to the process."
-MMH

thank You, God. please help me to continue to listen for your whisper over all this white noise of what i want in the world. help me not just to hear it, but to be confident enough to stand firm on it, act on it, and rest in it. thank You, God.

Your will. not mine.

sunday rest

it's so refreshing to realize that God's been working all along; that even when i feel like my life is so routine and monotonous, He's been preparing me so faithfully. He's been moving people towards me and away from me so strategically. He's been carrying me through and pushing me forward so purposefully. how fulfilling it is to see God and really receive His blessings with open, thankful arms. His love is so overpowering. i feel like i need to be still and rest in it as much as i need to stand up and scream it.

thank You, God.

sunday rest

You must understand this, my beloved; let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger; for your anger does not produce God's righteousness. Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror; for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like. But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act- they will be blessed in their doing.
James 1:19-25

the story God has for my life is to take me out of division into unity with Him. the story is to purify me so that i may be close to Him. oh, how He loves me enough to write my words, turn my pages, develop my character...that i may live ever after with Him. oh, how He loves me enough to bless my story so it may be read by others that they may also understand His holy, true ways.

an old new?

exactly 4 years ago was the first.
a moon closer than it has been in 18 years tonight.
laughing like we're supposed to.
i like it.