Month: March 2013

  • wrestling, thinking, journaling, thoughts in all different directions – up, down, and around…  digging down deep to get to the core.

    my final conclusion– broken, wretched, desperate, depraved, humbled…  falling to my knees and finding myself clinging to the foot of the cross, knowing that when all is said and done, no matter what happens in this life– good or bad, there’s no where else i could, should, or want to be but humbled, desperate, and caught in the arms of my Savior.

    Through forgotten convictions
    Misplaced affections
    I’m losing the sound of Your voice
    I’ve been chasing after emptiness
    Trying to tidy up this mess
    I swear I’ve been down this road before
    I want to get back to where it all began
    When I would long for only You

    Like a child I’ll take You at Your word
    As these mountains of doubt, they fade away
    I’m longing to trust and love You more
    So for me this is beautiful
    A brand new thought, and a brand new world
    Can I stay here forever here with You?

    I’ve lost sight of what first drew me
    To the love that pursued me
    The joy that inspired my song
    The friendship that was all I knew
    The arms that I would fall into
    Seem miles and years from where I am today
    I got to get back to where it all began
    When I would wait for only You

    Can I stay here forever
    Here with you?
    Surrounded by Your mercy
    Clothed in Your truth
    Always, I’ll stay
    Always here with You

    Can I be here forever
    Here with You?
    Can I know what it’s like
    To deeply love You?
    Always, Lord, let me stay
    Always, here with You

    STARFIELD – CAN I STAY HERE FOREVER

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    good quote…thanks, p.gary!

    “[An idol] is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.  A counterfeit god is anything so central and essential to your life that, should you lose it, your life would feel hardly worth living…secure.”… If anything in life becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning in life, and identity, then it is an idol.  An idol can be a physical object, a property, a person, an activity, a role, an institution, a hope, an image, an idea, a pleasure, a hero— anything that can substitute for God.”
     
    Dennis Newkirk (2012-11-16). No gods but God: Confronting Our Modern-Day Idolatry (p. 17). CrossBooks. Kindle Edition.
     

     

  • blessings

    -pbc friends
    -forming friendships through gchat..haha
    -ministry..i love ministry
    -LA friends
    -claire bear and jojo..i miss them
    -klove
    -syckie and kathy got married!!!
    -suuuper fun weekend with the kiksta, wongs, erbium, and our new addition – christina
    -christina for erbium <3
    -being in norcal!
    -not for a moment by meredith andrews
    -hannah bean.. -meeting kaylee!
    -seeing bro and karen
    -my memory verse pack
    -emails with kimbo
    -long commutes to think / pray
    -MY JOB!
    -not having to work weekends
    -not having to work holidays
    -steve-o moved up to sf!!  yay!
    -going through the psalms with rose..i love
    -mom’s home-cooking
    -this life that we live
    -continuous, overflowing, abundant, undeserved blessings
    -finishing twelve extraordinary women with book-clubbers
    -hearing their insights / thoughts
    -constant encouragement and fellowship even when i don’t expect it
    -finishing the pentateuch!
    -the preaching of God’s Word
    -pbc!
    -the encouragement of the saints
    -God’s grace…

    “i said to the Lord, ‘You are my Lord’; i have no good besides You … i have set the LORD continually before me; because He is at my right hand, i will not be shaken.  therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; my flesh also will dwell securely … You will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever.”
    -psalm 16:2, 8-9, 11