Well, it's time to move out. Just finished my third year of college. Wow. It's time for summer once again, and once again I find myself dreading the uncertainty of where I'll find my next rent payment and food. I'm really trying to not rest in the security of my plans and instead rest in the provision of God, but with the limited experience I have in trusting God, the experiences I am going through right now are taking all of the faith I have....
Closeness with God can be a difficult, ever changing thing. It's never because He changes, but always because we change. Change. I hate it and love it at the same time. It's what happens as we renew our minds and bring our lives into alignment with the reality of our new natures in Christ. We are already seated in heavenly places with Christ, but we have to learn how that looks as we live on earth and it can be a difficult, painful process....
Yes, this is a blog post about spring break. Honestly, I wasn't going to write about anything I've been doing, but then I saw all of my blogging friends posting about their breaks and I got a little jealous. (Silly, right? I thought so too.) Nevertheless, here I am. (Ta-da!) Usually, when I post something here, it's about something that I've been thinking about or wrestling with and pertains to mental/emotional/spiritual growth. Today, I just...
I had a thought this morning: what if everywhere I went held a special meaning to me because I had memories of God's presence there? What if I made it a point to acknowledge Jesus' presence with me in every place that I set foot? What if I could look back on my activities throughout the day and remember each moment fondly because I experienced God everywhere I went? The fullness of His presence is the ultimate gift, and memories are the ultimate...
So this is perhaps one of the coolest things I've come across in the last year! But this isn't just any pocket-sized notebook... open it up and you find... Five-line staff paper!!!!! This is a musical notation heaven! A friend at school had this notebook and offered it to me knowing that I might appreciate it as a music major. I do, in fact, appreciate it. Actually, I adore it. Now, whenever inspiration strikes me with an awesome melody, I can...
How limited is my view of God! As of late, I've been wrestling with questions about direction in life and letting go of my conceptions of what God's blessing on my life should look like, and it's only now that I'm realizing that I have such little experience of God's power or His glory or His love. I'm only now realizing that I struggle to trust Him with every part of me because I haven't come into the knowledge of His love for every part of me....
It all started with waking up. The threads of consciousness, woven and spun into the glory fall, worked their way into me, seeping into the dreams lingering in my mind yet being steadily dispelled by the constancy of activity in the physical domain. Stillness. I had a thought upon waking up, profound and personally meaningful. Yet the wording and phrasing of the thought escaped the frail grasp of my groggy brain leaving nothing but the...
Looking on, keep looking on,
Expectantly await the dawn,
You who cling to hope may wait,
May yet your heart now satiate,
Oh do not cease from looking on!
Continue pressing on in hope
And its related isotope:
In joy, that is; may yours be full,
This is the substance of the tulle,
The fabric of the wedding veil,
Fastened quick with thankfulness,
The bride of Christ is thus arrayed,
The love of Christ therefore displayed
In one for whom He bled and...
Welcome to the 2011 edition of my annual New Year's letter. If you are privileged enough to have been given the password to read this post, then I invite you to grab a cup of coffee (because coffee makes everything more enjoyable) and read on. Let me know in the comments how your year was too and what some of the lessons were that you've come away with. :) History
Trying to recall exactly what happened in January and February of this year is...
Today has been a respite, a respose from the inanity of semester's end. After a late breakfast, I decided to go outside and enjoy the glory-fall. I walked out past the parking lot and sat on a big rock and gazed across the field in front of the school. It was a beautiful moment—gazing and reflecting and praying. I couldn't help but take it all in, and I was so thankful that my eyes are truly open. When your eyes are really open, you never...
