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Commitment

February 25, 2009 at 4:37 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

I literally read this on a Starbucks cup (yes, I am a fan of said coffee giant) and thought it quite profound.  I would add commitment in faith as well because it frees us from buying into the lies of the enemy!

“The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating – in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation.  To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life.” 

                                                                                         ~Anne Morriss

I pray you commit today – to our Jesus and his will in your life!

Sue

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Home

February 24, 2009 at 5:21 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

Last night, as I thought through why I was feeling unsettled,  I realized something.  I don’t have a home.  It is both literal and spiritual. 

First, I have been living with friends for awhile now and all of my things are in storage with the exception of a few items.  So, I literally do not have a place of my own to go to and truly be by myself and rest (something I desperately need periodically). 

Don’t get me wrong.  I appreciate the opportunity to have some financial freedom.  I am humbled by the fact that these friends would allow me to stay in their home.  It is their home though, and not mine. 

The feeling was substanciated when I spent some time with the person I am dating and one of his daughters.  We were all at his house watching a movie and I thought, “wow, this is their home, not mine. ”  I am welcomed there but it is not mine.  I felt a twinge of homesickness.  Will I have a home to call my own again?  I am a person that places importance on place – a place to respite, revive, just be myself…

As I found peace again in my faith and remembered that sitting at the feet of Jesus is home, some of those feelings drifted away.  Then I remembered, this world is not my home. 

Perhaps inside I am truly beginning to long for HOME with He who loves me as far as the east is to the west.  Where this body no longer plagues me with all of its issues (enough with the acne, aches, and shortness already), where I can literally sit at the feet of Jesus and praise Him, where my troubles will be just a whisper of a memory, where my sometimes weary soul will truly be at rest as we work for Him who deserves our service and all the glory we can muster.

I pray that I will always remember to whom I belong and where my true home is…with Jesus in Heaven.  I pray the same for you.

In Him -

  Sue

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Valentine’s Day Missive

February 6, 2009 at 12:26 am · Filed under Uncategorized

As I navigate a new relationship, 1 Corinthians 13 comes to mind.  I know, it’s been quoted SOOO often when it comes to love and weddings however, there is a reason.  I took a look at some of my relationship concerns and realized that they were solvable by applying these scriptures.  Not a new thing, I know, but I needed reminding.  Funny thing – when I am a doer of the Word God moves me toward Him, a place I am yearning for more and more. I am reminded – whether showing love for my Savior and God or people – love is a verb.
In Him –
Sue
1 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;[a] but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
 4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
 8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages[b] and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! 9 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! 10 But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless.
 11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.[c] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
 13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

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