Falling Apart?

“He is before all things and in Him all things hold together." This is the verse on my mirror right now and last night I was looking at it and it said something new to me. Funny how that sometimes happens. Something I’ve seen every morning for 2 months now, and tonight I see it differently? Strana. Maybe that’s pare of what it means when it says “the Word of God is living and active.” Anyway, I’m no Bible scholar and I didn’t go to look up the original meaning of the text or anything like that tonight, so maybe what I saw is not at all what it really says, but it still makes sense and that is this: ‘IN him all things hold together.’ I used to read that and see that He is before all things and BECAUSE of Him all things hold together. Tonight, that’s not what it says at all it says that IN Him they hold together, which would also admit that APART from Him they don’t—hold together, that is. No wonder sometimes my life seems to be falling apart. Maybe it is. Maybe it needs to until I find myself IN Him again. Someone once said something about how cool it would be if after death someone came to ‘examine’ my life and they couldn’t find any evidence at all that I had lived because the only prints that had been left were those of God. What an incredible challenge…to be found IN Him at all times. “He must become greater I must become less” John 3:30

I miss Calyn

And even though I know

how very far apart we are,

it helps to think we might be wishing

on the same bright star.

My sacrifice is not enough.

He will not here my words, only my heart.

Jesus. He is the reason I may enter the presence of my Father.

Isaiah 1:10-17

10 Hear the word of the LORD,
you rulers of Sodom;
listen to the law of our God,
you people of Gomorrah!

11 "The multitude of your sacrifices—
what are they to me?" says the LORD.
"I have more than enough of burnt offerings,
of rams and the fat of fattened animals;
I have no pleasure
in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.

12 When you come to appear before me,
who has asked this of you,
this trampling of my courts?

13 Stop bringing meaningless offerings!
Your incense is detestable to me.
New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations—
I cannot bear your evil assemblies.

14 Your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts
my soul hates.
They have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.

15 When you spread out your hands in prayer,
I will hide my eyes from you;
even if you offer many prayers,
I will not listen.
Your hands are full of blood;

16 wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds
out of my sight!
Stop doing wrong,

17 learn to do right!
Seek justice,
encourage the oppressed.
Defend the cause of the fatherless,
plead the case of the widow.

Strana...Inistrana...

So, last night I was on my way home and my marshrooka driver, I guess, decided that we needed gas becuase we pulled into a gas station to fill up. I was highly amused.

KIBC ROCS!

This is an old slide show...But, I thought my mom and Mrs. Debbie might appreciate it :o)



The Vision

Last week at Bible Study...

...we talked about testing and Mrs. JoAnn was talking about how when we are tested it is not God testing us to see how good we are, but often to prove His work in us. She was talking about how when you build a house a lot of times you hope that it will rain so that you can test the roof or foundation or whatever, to see if it will hold up or leak and whatnot. And when the roof doesn't leak and the foundation holds, it is a reflection of the expertise ofthe Builder and also a comfort to the inhabitants of the house to know that the house can go through storms and withstand them because the One who built it did so skillfully and perfectly. Good Stuff.

I can't wait for tonight :o)

I wish I had taken my camera...

Today I walked out of the office to go meet Dennis for lunch and in the schoolyard behind our building there were kids everywhere building snowmen. Really, I think there were at least 20 snowmen when I walked through. I wish I could have taken a picture. It was really cool. My journey back to the office wasn't quite as peaceful as the snowmen had been exchanged for snowballs, which were zipping every which way as a lady in a nice suit and I dodged our way through. So much fun! Then, on the other side of the schoolyard, right there in the snow covered parking lot of our building was a man walking a pig. Craziness. Tomorrow, I will make sure I have a camera with me whenever I walk outside...