Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 05:18PM after a couple weeks of the crude, i'm beginning to feel normal- not run down. So glad to be rid of all that stuff. we had a great vision team meeting at the church. excited about all that God is doing and how He is leading us.
this weekend i'm teaching on the importance of words and connecting with people-- out of Job, Proverbs and Psalms.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 02:09PM I wait for God knowing that He has waited for me.
I relinquish my pushbutton, results based view of life.
So often the man relies on meters and graphs
to sculpt the frame of an immeasurable God.
The measure of pain extends us
driving us into the wellspring faith.
my pain screams loudly in the far country.
the Almighty of God uses pictures and pain to speak truth
Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 09:02AM "People are equal in the same way pennies are equal. Some are bright, others are dull; some are worn smooth, others are sharp and fresh. But all are equal in value for each penny bears the image of the sovereign, each person bears the image of the King of Kings."
Chesterton
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 07:57PM He rides on the clouds
He lights the sun through the portals of the starry host
He speaks order in planets spinning as celestial tops in the playrooms of seraphim
He caps the mountains and gives muse to dancing geese and flying salmon
Giving grand buffets to whales in their salty home of the deep
He renders the deluge of clouds pregnant with rain
He conducts the grand orchestra of birds and teaches the gazelle to run
He fashions tiny cells to move as cities through the tiny oceans of my eyes
he is everywhere, in every move, causing order in the most chaotic orb
Each chapter of days is marked by the never-ending discovery of new life
Strange creeping, flying, flourishing creatures unknown before now
Alive since the dawn of Eden
And still they reckon Him lost in the flurry of his own creation
calling everything a calamity of circumstance
He casts his messages in every breath of every organism, every galloping foal
And they search harder for the accidental clues,
for a random explanation in a system they will never fully know.
... it is then that the angels laugh.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 10:21AM
On the road to recovery from the cold and taking a day off. Something is stirring within me and I want to reevaluate a few directions in my personal world. Sickness has a way of doing that. It is like a little slice of death that allows you a taste of the inevitable entree.
Oh death, where is thy anti-biotic!!
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 12:52PM I've pondered this over the past few days that I have been ill with a wicked chest and sinus infection which evolved into back troubles. I'm usually a very healthy person so this all took me by surprise. I believe the purpose for this experience is to remind me how much under mercy my life resides. We are at the mercy of bodies with expiration dates on them than are only viewable by the manufacturer.
Therefore, since through God's mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness,"made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
