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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Yet Another Tedious Update
As you wait upon the Lord, you learn to see things from His perspective, move at His pace, and function under His directives. Waiting times are growing times and learning times. As you quiet your heart, you enter His peace; as you sense your weakness you receive His strength; as you lay down your will, you hear His calling. When you mount up, you are being lifted by the wind of His Spirit; when you move ahead, you are sensitive to His timing; when you act, you give yourself only to the thing He has asked you to do.
–Roy Lessin
Wednesday Worship: While I’m Waiting
These days of waiting are hard. I want to know what’s coming down the pipeline. I want to know when my surgery will be. I want to know if I have cancer again and if so, if it has spread. I want to know what scans and treatments await. I want to know what the next months will look like for my family and me. I want to know… I want to know… I want to know… and I grow impatient. Impatient with the pain and the fear and the struggle.
Rest
“If you want rest come to Christ in Gethsemane, to Christ on Calvary, to Christ risen, to Christ ascended. If you want rest, O weary souls, ye can find it nowhere until ye come and lay your burdens down at His dear pierced feet, and find life in looking alone to Him.”
- Charles Spurgeon
My soul is weary.
My heart is burdened.
My body is aching.
My emotions are fragile.
My mind is a whirlwind.
My fears are staggering.
My faith is weak.
My heart is burdened.
My body is aching.
My emotions are fragile.
My mind is a whirlwind.
My fears are staggering.
My faith is weak.
My Jesus is ENOUGH.
Bloodlines
Friday afternoon in the mountainous coal mining region of Pennsylvania, we buried my grandmother. She was ninety-four.
It had been more than fifteen years since I had been to my father’s hometown, and I was awash with a multitude of memories and emotions. A very ethnic Italian and Polish community, it was like walking back into time 50 years. The mountains were beautiful. The bloodlines were interesting.