Inspiration from a storm

I like to make lists. It helps me understand what is in my brain better.


The Word truely is the Bread of life. May we not starve. Christ truely is the fountain of living waters. May we drink deep.

What more can I do? I put my only Son on the cross for you.

Record

:) So so much has been going on lately. God is so faithful!






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very soon i hope something inspirational which spurs on the creative juices and lends to some adventure comes my way...

adding to more flava in life.

Made for Another World

"One decisive influence was J. R. R. Tolkein, author of The Lord of the Rings. He argued like this, as Lewis did for the rest of his life: When this Joy—this stab of inconsolable longing—is awakened by certain powerful “myths” or “stories,” it is evidence that behind these myths there is a true Myth, a true Story that really exists, and that the reason the Joy is desirable and inconsolable is that it’s not the real thing. The True Myth, the Real Joy is the original shout, so to speak, and the stories and myths of human making are only echoes.

Tolkein pressed the analogous truth for Christianity. And Lewis did the same years later: “A man’s physical hunger does not prove that that man will get any bread: he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man’s hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating, and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist.” In other words, “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probably explanation is that I was made for another world.”"

-Piper on C.S. Lewis

http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/ConferenceMessages/ByConference/46/4503_Lessons_from_an_Inconsolable_Soul/

Suffer Well

Pastor Matt Chandler of The Village Church had a seizure on Thanksgiving 2009 and a brain tumor was found in his head.

Just like that.

Watch this video. What an example. When you suffer, suffer well, that all might know that only Christ satisfies!

Christ is the treasure, not good health or wealth.

Everywhere

This is a photo representative of my life right now.

It sometimes feels like a deserted, foggy roller coaster, and I'm riding all alone. Other times it feels like I was left on a deserted island. Or like I'm walking through the wilderness on a lone path with no end in sight. My only comfort is knowing that Christ is all around, above and below, standing so near.

Other than that, it's been pretty quiet here. The good news is that I think I'm getting closer to knowing what I should do in my life (for the current season). I was just praying out my options to the Lord last night, explaining what was going through my head with each of my 7 ideas and suddenly it clicked. I'm not 100% sure, but we'll see. I'm just glad that I'm getting closer.

Also, I was driving home from our soccer game today and within my current situation of coaching, I finally pieced together parts of why I'm there. A few weeks into the job back in July I just couldn't figure out why everything was happening as they were. I can now taste and see the blessing. So I must keep faith that things will eventually make sense on this crazy deserted island as well.

And I really like this video. Such a comfort to know that the Lord is everywhere. Psalm 139

And Evan's sons are just so cute, I wish I could babysit them. : )

life.

There have been MANY switchbacks on this strange road.

Today my coach asked if I would speak at his memorial/funeral.

He has been battlin' with leukemia for many years now, but it looks like the Lord might finally take Him soon.

I have a lot to say about this & I am learning a lot, but i don't have the words right now & it's so late... I need to sleep.

Life is crazy. So much stuff is happening and I didn't even see it coming.