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the comfort of familiarty

i feel these landmarks

i know these signs

these are my hills

i’ve climbed these climbs

home signs, yard lights

i’ve come to the right place

but now i’m in the guest room

which is okay

i’m made ready for new

and ready for more

 

 

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its Easter

it’s Easter and my doubt is here

it’s Easter and my struggles are here

it’s Easter and Satan’s snares are real.

it’s Easter and new hope is near

it’s Easter and freshness appears

it’s the Easter time of year…

there’s new trying and forgiveness

there’s acceptance and fulfillment

it’s Easter and

Jesus is here.

I came to this …

I came to this site with the intent to delete it, since I don’t have regular access to it anyways. But, it’s a bit tougher than I thought. For one, I can’t seem to find the delete button. But then again, I’m not sure how hard I want to look. Deleting this blog kind of means to me that I’m leaving behind one life for another. And I’m not entirely sure yet that I don’t want to take much of it along. I might have learned lots of new things, struggled through different struggles, become somewhat of a different person, but somehow it almost seems to me that if I can come back here, then some part of me will always stay the same.

I don’t think I have to do this today. Deleting takes but a few min I’m sure. I’ll do so, next time.

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weddings and what not

All those years we wished for a few weddings around here;  just to get in some excitement, singing, decorating and fun. And now, we seem to have them. And all in a short period of time. But the motto has shifted from expensive and elaborate to, ‘keep it simple, make it effective’.

But now, the one day somehow doesn’t seem all that much of a big deal anymore when compared to the rest of your life.

Either we’ll have gone crazy by the time the year is done, or we will have learned a lot.

It’s time to dig out all those decorating ideas and come up with entertainment.

The time to support each other, help each other with decisions and encourage each other.

It’s time we know, for changes.

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greetings…..

Hi!

I was surprised to still find my site after all the time I’ve spent away from it 🙂

Maybe I needed that time to learn and grow without trying to put things into words. And maybe I wouldn’t have anymore readers left by now either :p

A lot has happened and changed in a short amount of time. And it’s in those times that we most need some things to stay the same.

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Sorry

Unfortunately, this site has inadvertently gotten blocked recently. Thank-you to those who followed, read or commented on my posts. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to update in the near future.

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Andrew Peterson
Dancing In The Minefields lyrics

I was nineteen, you were twenty-one
The year we got engaged
Everyone said we were much too young
But we did it anyway

We bought our rings for forty each
From a pawn shop down the road
We made our vows and took the leap
Now fifteen years ago

We went dancing in the minefields
We went sailing in the storm
And it was harder than we dreamed
But I believe that’s what the promise is for

“I do” are the two most famous last words
The beginning of the end
But to lose your life for another I’ve heard
Is a good place to begin

‘Cause the only way to find your life
Is to lay your own life down
And I believe it’s an easy price
For the life that we have found

And we’re dancing in the minefields
We’re sailing in the storm
This is harder than we dreamed
But I believe that’s what the promise is for

So when I lose my way, find me
When I loose love’s chains, bind me
At the end of all my faith, till the end of all my days
When I forget my name, remind me

‘Cause we bear the light of the Son of Man
So there’s nothing left to fear
So I’ll walk with you in the shadowlands
Till the shadows disappear

‘Cause he promised not to leave us
And his promises are true
So in the face of all this chaos, baby,
I can dance with you

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the richness of reality

I just finished reading some women’s stories on a blog called, Young Ladies Christian Fellowship. The subjects were on love and marriage. And most of them wrote on the realities of love compared to the storybook versions of it.

Needless to say, it was interesting reading. And made me think of my own lofty ideas about finding love and the sweet, simple realities of it.

As one them admitted, she hardly remembers meeting her future husband the first time. And she always thought it would be this memorably glorious moment. It made me think that I didn’t pay too much attention either, to the quiet guy hanging out with me at events…I honestly can’t remember the first time I met him… I didn’t notice his steadfast character right away.  For some reason, it took awhile for me to see the caring devotion in his eyes and when I suddenly realized he could be what I was looking for, well… it took me very much by surprise.

I really can’t speak about much more than falling in love, as those other writers did. But I did have to agree with them, that the ideas we have about such things can be utterly shaken, and completely overhauled.

And no matter how wonderfully romantic seems the storybook romance; I would much rather have even a little something that is real life.

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Leave Room For God

“When it pleased God…”  (Galatians 1:15).

As servants of God, we must learn to make room for Him- to give God “elbow room.”  We plan and figure and predict that this or that will happen, but we forget to make room for God to come in as He chooses.  Would we be surprised if God came into our meeting or into our preaching in a way we had never expected Him to come? Do not look for God in come in a particular way, but do look for Him.

The way to make room for Him is to expect Him to come, but not in a certain way. No matter how well we may know God, the great lesson to learn is that He may break in at any minute. We tend to overlook this element of surprise, yet God never works in any other way. Suddenly- God meets our life- “…when it pleased God…”

Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point. Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.

 

(My Utmost For His Highest, Oswald Chambers)