Love

O love of God so rich and pure, how measureless and strong

As Easter passes, something that I wanted to share, as a reflection. A sermon on the selfless love of Christ.

http://www.aacfla.org/downloads/Winter_10_-_Week_07_2010-02-17_-_David_Lee.mp3

Birthday fun

Cream cheese frosting fixes everything!!

Hope deferred and a desire fulfilled

From Matthew Henry's commentary:

Nothing is more grievous than the disappointment of a raised expectation, though not in the thing itself by a denial, yet in the time of it by a delay: Hope deferred makes the heart sick and languishing, fretful and peevish; but hope quite dashed kills the heart, and the more high the expectation was raised the more cutting is the frustration of it. It is therefore our wisdom not to promise ourselves any great matters from the creature, not to feed ourselves with any vain hopes from this world, lest we lay up matter for our own vexation; and what we do hope for let us prepare to be disappointed in, that, if it should prove so, it may prove the easier; and let us not be hasty. 2. Nothing is more grateful than to enjoy that, at last, which we have long wished and waited for: When the desire does come it puts men into a sort of paradise, a garden of pleasure, for it is a tree of life. It will aggravate the eternal misery of the wicked that their hopes will be frustrated; and it will make the happiness of heaven the more welcome to the saints that it is what they have earnestly longed for as the crown of their hopes.

Sanctifying the Ordinary

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From Spurgeon, 'serve him where you are'

Thoughts from Fabs.

And so, this pain, more than anything else will teach me to trust.  Each day, as the sun goes down and I still find myself securely held in the arms of the Father, my faith is built.    He doesn't promise to give me everything I need to never be hungry.  He promises to give me everything I need to not starve to death on the road home to Him.  And today I'm alive; He has proved Himself faithful.  He doesn't promise to give me everything I need to never ever falter.  He promises to give me everything I need to finish this race.  And today I love Him; He has proved Himself faithful.  He will finish the good work He began in me.  There is only one thing I really need.  And it is secure.

The fun this weekend

i am careless and clumsy. the end.

artwork courtesy of mi madre

the after

the before 'fashion statement'

Love can always wait to give, lust can never wait to get -Elisabeth Elliot