Hope

Hope is found in surprising places. We do not often see it coming. It is good to hope. I would like to hope more. Hope is not something you can create. Let us look to the one who can can create it.

Quote of the Week XXXVIII

Thus men, extending their inquiries beyond their capacities, and letting their thoughts wander into those depths where they can find no sure footing, it is no wonder that they raise questions and multiply disputes, which, never coming to any clear resolution, are proper only to continue and increase their doubts, and to confirm them at last in perfect scepticism. (John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding)

Theodicy

Voddie Baucham "If God is so powerful and so Good, why do bad things happen?"



He is so right on that I don't even know where to begin.

Trust

I remember a time when I trusted the Lord more than I trusted anyone else. I remember a time when I did not trust Him hardly at all. The thing that gets me, is that He actually goes out of His way (so to speak) to periodically remind me that I can and should trust Him. Clearly He does not owe me any sort of further proof of His trustworthyness. There is no reason for me to doubt Him. Yet His mercy endures. He is patient. He leads me by the hand. He guards and protects me. It is something truly remarkable to trust someone. Let me put my trust where it belongs.

Trial Part III

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Sometimes I am amazed at the compassion of my Lord. Sometimes there is so much to think about and so little to say...

To My Love V

I am for your liberty
And I desire that you be free
And all the world I wish for you
And pray that all your loves be true.

I imagine you to be
In a place where I can't see
And I wish that I would never do
Terrible hurtful things to you.

I imagine that won't be
Unless you never actually see
Me in all my favourite things
Me at all and what that brings.

But what if it is stuck in you?
That need for me like I need you
And though I seem a helpless case
Still you must needs see my face...

All above I pray for you
And trust that our King will see you through
And though in life we may never meet
Still my heart it skips a beat.

And though the thought that I might see
Makes me feel eternity
Still I wonder at the dream
And wonder at just how it seems.

Be well my love until the end
Be well my love around the bend
And all the parts you cannot see
Trust in Him to be with me.

Pancakes and Coffee

Some mornings, when you really do not know what to do with yourself, an opportunity presents itself (as the common phrase in English goes). Other times you just have pancakes and sip your coffee.

This morning I am sipping my coffee (the pancakes were fine, if you really must know). So I will get ready to go and do... well, I guess I'll go to work and wait, as it were. And in times like this I find that Jesus is what I really want. I wish it did not take times like this to remind me that Jesus is all I really want.

I do not want answers as much as I want Jesus. I do not want a way out- I want a way in. I do not want the pain to stop- I want to feel the presence of God. When times are desperate I do not want my life to go on- I want my spirit to be at peace with Jesus. There is only this King Jesus and He has made the world and He will cover it with fire. He has come as a man to die and He will return with a Sword in His mouth to Judge as God.

Sometimes things present themselves. Other times we have pancakes and coffee. At all times Jesus is Lord.

Quote of the Week XXXVII

I am a ghost... I entered the eighteenth circle of hell a long time ago. ("Number Four" from the film Broken Trail, after she was raped the first time in the film)

Begging your pardon...

My apologies for the long unexplained absence. I have been elsewhere than norm and have had a somewhat finicky internet connection. I hope to resume by early next week- if not sooner.

Quote of the Week XXXVI

"Love isn't brains, children, it's blood -- blood screaming inside you to work its will... (Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Lover's Walk" Season 3)

Trial 2