house of one oh seven.
a little blurry, but, that’s us.
to come alive
favorite mispronunciations of the week:
“tappanapple” : jireh, 5th grade, trying to pronounce “tabernacle”
“ba-cuter” : jazmine, kindergarten, trying to pronounce “computer”
“ on this gray morning, when the birds sing in the rain, i proclaim that there is a sad note… we lift our eyes to you in heaven, o god of eternity, wishing we were poorer, more silent and more mortified. lord, give us liberty from all things that are in this world, from the preoccupations of earth and of time, that we may be called to cleanness where the saints are…
thomas merton- dialogues with silence
proverbs 3.5-10
trust god from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track. don’t assume that you know it all. run to God! run from evil! your body will glow with health, your very bones will vibrate with life! honor God with everything you own; give him the first and best.
We have the idea that God rewards us for our faith, and it may be so in the initial stages. But we do not earn anything through faith— faith brings us into the right relationship with God and gives Him His opportunity to work. Yet God frequently has to knock the bottom out of your experience as His saint to get you in direct contact with Himself. God wants you to understand that it is a life of faith, not a life of emotional enjoyment of His blessings. The beginning of your life of faith was very narrow and intense, centered around a small amount of experience that had as much emotion as faith in it, and it was full of light and sweetness. Then God withdrew His conscious blessings to teach you to “walk by faith” ( 2 Corinthians 5:7 ). And you are worth much more to Him now than you were in your days of conscious delight with your thrilling testimony.
Faith by its very nature must be tested and tried. And the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God’s character must be proven as trustworthy in our own minds. Faith being worked out into reality must experience times of unbroken isolation. Never confuse the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life, because a great deal of what we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive. Faith, as the Bible teaches it, is faith in God coming against everything that contradicts Him— a faith that says, “I will remain true to God’s character whatever He may do.” The highest and the greatest expression of faith in the whole Bible is— “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” ( Job 13:15 ).
i live with a sludgerbomb.
“ you get a feeling when you look back on life that that’s all God really wants from us: to live inside a body he made and enjoy the story and bond with us through the experience.
donald miller
i liked it then
