at some point, this semester decided to pick up speed, very quickly. it kind of happened without me knowing it. today, i have been blessed with a very long break before my fabulous 4-7 finance class... yay! therefore, i will take a moment to post some wonderful findings.
oh hello friend had a fabulous post today that made me do some wandering. today what would be heavenly to me would be to grab my bible, journal, ipod, maybe a book, and a big thermos of coffee or chai... and sit in one of these absolutely dreamy looking places and spend some time talking to God...
and what has God been teaching me lately? He has been gracious to me. coming to the end of college makes me reflect on how God has worked and changed me and those around me throughout the past, oh 8 or so years of my life. it's quite overwhelming. He has proven Himself faithful to me... i definitely have not always thought He was being faithful and i still get angry at Him sometimes, but when i look at His Word and when He gets my mind in the correct perspective, it is incredible to see His abundant mercy and provision... i can't even come close to comprehending it.
oh, how i have been able to relate to job (although he was much more faithful than i)...
"I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me which I did not know." - Job 40
what an incredible treehouse. i always dreamed of having a treehouse... actually i think i imagined what it would be like to actually live inside a tree... how that would be possible, i don't know. but the thought seemed very cozy to me when i was a child.
beautiful, english countryside.
a sweet friend directed me to psalm 37 the other night... it spoke volumes to me.
"Commit your way to the Lord, trust in Him and He will act... Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him... those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land, and delight themselves in abundant peace... Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace."
it's amazing how many times the word, wait, is used in the bible... i could learn from that.
an RUF internship update: my interview is February 16. please pray.
a beautiful poem from our james study...
"Hast thou no scar?
No hidden scar on foot, or side, or hand?
I hear thee sung as mighty in the land;
I hear them hail thy bright, ascendant star.
Hast thou no scar?
Hast thou no wound?
Yet I was wounded by the archers; spent,
Leaned Me against a tree to die; and rent
By ravening beasts that compassed Me, I swooned.
Hast thou no wound?
No wound? No scar?
Yet, as the Master shall the servant be,
And piercèd are the feet that follow Me.
But thine are whole; can he have followed far
Who hast no wound or scar?"
No hidden scar on foot, or side, or hand?
I hear thee sung as mighty in the land;
I hear them hail thy bright, ascendant star.
Hast thou no scar?
Hast thou no wound?
Yet I was wounded by the archers; spent,
Leaned Me against a tree to die; and rent
By ravening beasts that compassed Me, I swooned.
Hast thou no wound?
No wound? No scar?
Yet, as the Master shall the servant be,
And piercèd are the feet that follow Me.
But thine are whole; can he have followed far
Who hast no wound or scar?"
- Amy Carmichael
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