"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
-- W.B. Yeats
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
Sunday, May 02, 2010
For Those Who Touch Our Lives...
For Those Who Touch Our Lives...
You wrote no lofty poems
that critics counted art.
But with a nobler vision
you lived them in your heart.
You carved no shapeless marble
to some high soul design.
But with a finer sculpture
you shaped this soul of mine.
You built no great cathedrals
that centuries applaud:
but with a grace exquisite
your life cathedraled God.
- Thomas Fessenden, excerpt from Quiet Reflections: A Mother's Journal.
While this is supposed to be more about mother's, couldn't this also be directed toward ANYONE who impacts a life???
You wrote no lofty poems
that critics counted art.
But with a nobler vision
you lived them in your heart.
You carved no shapeless marble
to some high soul design.
But with a finer sculpture
you shaped this soul of mine.
You built no great cathedrals
that centuries applaud:
but with a grace exquisite
your life cathedraled God.
- Thomas Fessenden, excerpt from Quiet Reflections: A Mother's Journal.
While this is supposed to be more about mother's, couldn't this also be directed toward ANYONE who impacts a life???
Monday, April 12, 2010
For today... (what an awesome reminder)
Enjoying Peace in His Presence
I love you regardless of how well you are performing. Sometimes you feel uneasy, wondering if you are doing enough to be worthy of My Love. No matter how exemplary your behavior, the answer to that question will always be no. Your performance and My Love are totally different issues, which you need to sort out. I love you with an everlasting Love that flows out from eternity without limits or conditions. I have clothed you in My robe of righteousness, and this is an eternal transaction: Nothing and no one can reverse it. Therefore, your accomplishment as a Christian has no bearing on My Love for you. Even your ability to assess how well you are doing on a given day is flawed. Your limited human perspective and the condition of your body, with its mercurial variations, distort your evaluation.
Bring your performance anxiety to Me, and receive in its place, My Unfailing Love. Try to stay conscious of My loving Presence with you in all that you do , and I will direct your steps.
Jeremiah 31:3; Isaiah 61:10; Psalm 31:16; Psalm 107:8
Excerpted from the devotional book, Jesus Calling by Sarah Young.
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Thank you for this reminder, Lord. I really needed to hear this.
I love you regardless of how well you are performing. Sometimes you feel uneasy, wondering if you are doing enough to be worthy of My Love. No matter how exemplary your behavior, the answer to that question will always be no. Your performance and My Love are totally different issues, which you need to sort out. I love you with an everlasting Love that flows out from eternity without limits or conditions. I have clothed you in My robe of righteousness, and this is an eternal transaction: Nothing and no one can reverse it. Therefore, your accomplishment as a Christian has no bearing on My Love for you. Even your ability to assess how well you are doing on a given day is flawed. Your limited human perspective and the condition of your body, with its mercurial variations, distort your evaluation.
Bring your performance anxiety to Me, and receive in its place, My Unfailing Love. Try to stay conscious of My loving Presence with you in all that you do , and I will direct your steps.
Jeremiah 31:3; Isaiah 61:10; Psalm 31:16; Psalm 107:8
Excerpted from the devotional book, Jesus Calling by Sarah Young.
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Thank you for this reminder, Lord. I really needed to hear this.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Recently read...
Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows.
Sometime God reveals interesting lessons from the most unusual places.
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