Father, Abba, help me to be a reader of the life stories around me. Impress upon me the need to open the "bookcovers" that come in and out of my life and to delve deeply into their text. May I, through my actions, share Christ's story to those I interact with. Amen

AMEN!!

The Coming Oil Crisis, by Ivor Myers

As I was talking to her, I said, "With the person I'm with or I'm involved in, I want to say "This is it." Every time that I can remember, but now, no more. I now say, my Everything is for my Father, He is it."

Father God, Christ - You are it. I want what You want. You choose for me.

I want what my Father wants for me. I know not myself and I trust not my heart.

Amen...

I want...I want...I want, I want, I want, HA! I'm going through all these profiles, and that's all I see: what the "heart" supposedly "wants". Honestly, we really don't know what we want in a spouse. We think we do, but honest to goodness, we don't. Talk to couples. Most of the time I hear girls talking about their husbands as being an unlikely choice, not their "type," yet I can plainly see that they are happy with the person they're with. The heart wants what the heart wants, but the heart is never satisfied in all of its wanting. David writes of God giving us the desire of our heart. People have come to assumed that this refers to their future spouse. Yet, I have come to learn that our hearts desire God. It is a relationship with the Father, with Christ that our desires are truly fulfilled. A earthly relationship with another human is a by-product of our relationship with God. The theme throughout the entire Bible is the relationship of God with man, colored in all its shades of goodness and ugliness. He is our goal, our attainment, not a man or a woman, but Him, the one who made us and redeemed us. Our first and most vital relationship.

“Love is the basis of godliness. Whatever the profession, no man has pure love to God unless he has unselfish love for his brother. But we can never come into possession of this spirit by trying to love others. What is needed is the love of Christ in the heart. When self is merged in Christ, love springs forth spontaneously. The completeness of Christian character is attained when the impulse to help and bless others springs constantly from within--when the sunshine of heaven fills the heart and is revealed in the countenance” (Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 384).

School is done and again for the second time in my life I am left wondering what I'll do with it exactly. Oh I know my Father will provide but it is in the time between that I am left wondering what I'll do with myself as I wait. Of course, I don't mean physically but mentally. I do feel a little lost even as I make attempts at cover letters which I equate to biting nails. I can't believe that I am done school and barely can breathe when now I must join this new band wagon of "finding a job". Jesus, preserve me!

so powerful and so true...amen!

I Love Me, I love me Not: Why Self Esteem will never satisfy

I've come to see this myself, and now I've found someone who has talked about it.