Father God,
I confess to you that I am often too busy to hear your
voice
or determine your direction for my life. Please forgive me for being
self-centered. Help me to see those who cross my path like you see
them.
Help me to love them with your love, drawing them from the darkness
into
the Light. Amen!
Here is an interesting article reagarding women in God’s service. I am so glad Beth Moore and many other Christian teachers and authors did not ignore their calling and gifts given to them by God.
Sounds like an interesting super bowl. I am glad I was not paying that close of attention.
It is unfortunate that it has come down to this.
This is fun. Take this quiz and let me know what kind of condiment you are. By the way, I am ketchup. A good loyal friend with a sense of humor.
The Epidemic of Permissive Parenting: The Brats are Coming
Dr. Albert Mohler
Dr. Robert Shaw is convinced that American society has become toxic to children. In his new book, The Epidemic, Shaw argues that a pattern of absentee and permissive parenting has led to children that are anti-social, emotionally fragile, and even dangerous.
This is a picture taken by NASA with the Hubble telescope. They are
referring to it as the “Eye of God”. It is beautiful and worth sharing.
This is a picture taken by NASA with the Hubble telescope. They are
referring to it as the “Eye of God”. It is beautiful and worth sharing.
OK- for some reason my picture link is not working. So, I did a search and found the link to the picture.
Comments: This is indeed an authentic photograph or rather, composite of photos taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. It was featured on NASA’s Website as an Astronomy Picture of the Day in May 2003 and thereafter posted on a number of Websites under the title “The Eye of God” (though I couldn’t find evidence that NASA has ever referred to it as such). The awe-inspiring image has also been featured on magazine covers and in articles about space imagery.
There is a secret set within each of our hearts. It often goes unnoticed, we rarely can put words to it, and yet it guides us throughout the days of our lives. The secret remains hidden for the most part in our deepest selves. It is the desire for life as it was meant to be. Isn’t there a life you’ve been searching for all your days? You may not always be aware of your search, and there are times when seem to have abandoned looking altogether. But again and again it returns to us, this yearning that cries out for the life we prize. It is elusize, to be sure. It seems to come and go at will. Seasons may pass until it surfaces again. For if we could recover this desire, unearth it from beneath all other distractions, and embrace it as our deepest treasure, we would discover the secret of our existence.
You see life comes to all of us as a mystery. We all share the same dilemma- we long for life and we are not sure where to find it. We wonder if we ever do find it, can we make it last? The longing for life within us seems incongruent with the life we find around us. The greatest human tragedy is to give up the search. Nothing is of greater importance than the life of our deep heart. To lose heart is to lose everything.
The clue as to who we really are and why we are here comes to us through our hearts desire. But it comes in surprising ways, and often goes unnoticed or misunderstood. Once in a while life comes together for us in a way that feels good and right and what we have been waiting for. These are the moments in our lives that we wish could go on forever. They aren’t necessarily the “Kodak moments,” weddings and births and great achievements. More often than not they come in subtler, unexpected ways, as if to sneak up on us.
Think of times in your life that made you wish for all the world that you had the power to make time stand still. Are they not moments of love, moments of joy? Simple moments of rest and quiet when all seems to be well. Something in your heart says, Finally- it has come. This is what I was made for.
If this intrigues you at all, check out John Eldredge’s , The Journey of Desire.
This is for all my friends who are making important decisions right now. I say to you, “Follow the desires of your heart.”
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