What my heart is really in love with is the way that He keeps reminding me that He is still here. Please watch this incredible video that resounded so deeply with me. To God be the Glory.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
In love
I thought I was in love with the way God keeps showing up in my life in the middle of what seems to be the fight for my life. Yet the more I walk, run, and sometimes crawl on this journey, I am beginning to realize I'm not in love with the way God keeps showing up.
What my heart is really in love with is the way that He keeps reminding me that He is still here. Please watch this incredible video that resounded so deeply with me. To God be the Glory.
What my heart is really in love with is the way that He keeps reminding me that He is still here. Please watch this incredible video that resounded so deeply with me. To God be the Glory.
Saturday, February 2, 2013
I will help you
Psalm 121
I will lift up my eyes to the hills—
From whence comes my help?
From whence comes my help?
My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.
He willl not allow your foot to be moved;
He who keeps you will not slumber.
Behold He that keeps Israel,
Shall never slumber nor sleep.
The Lord is your keeper;
The Lord is shade upon your right hand.
The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
The Lord shall preserve you from all evil;
He shall preserve your soul.
The Lord shall preserve your going out and coming in
From this time forth, and even forevermore.
NKJV
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Attention Deficit Disorder
Typically known as a disorder that children and some adults suffer, attention deficit order occurs when a person is predominately inattentive and have difficulty getting on or staying on task. Or others with Attention Deficit Disorder have difficulty staying on task because they can not control both impulses and activity.
Lately I have been thinking about how the time we give to people,places, and things that capture our attention to the point of obsession throws otherwise balanced areas of our lives off kilter and causes deficits in other areas of our lives. We then create our own Attention Deficit Disorder of sorts.
If we by escape throw ourselves into seemingly harmless activities, or cling too tightly to people, or submerge ourselves at places ad nauseam because those elements give us some kind of relief or quiets something within us, it causes us to become deficient in some form or another.
I find that it causes deficits in activities that we once enjoyed but have stopped participating in because our escape activity has taken over. It causes deprivation in meaningful relationships with others because the one or more people we are overly drawn to become the center of our world.
Hiding or hanging out excessively at places that are relatively harmless causes deficits because opportunities we have to go elsewhere and experience new things are squelched or diminished because we can't get beyond or chose not to go beyond our place of escape.
Could it be that we all suffer from a little attention deficit disorder at one time or another? Giving our selves and our attention, to people, places and things that seem harmless, and because our attention becomes so fixated on these things, we create deficits, chaos and disorder in other areas of our lives that were once balanced?
The first month of the New Year is quickly coming to a close. I feel its never too late to reevaluate where we are in life and make changes that would encourage growth. Today let's consider what is unbalanced, chaotic, disorganized, and what we give most of our attention to, so that we don't continue to struggle with our own form of Attention Deficit Disorder and perpetuate meagerness in areas of our lives that were designed for order, balance and harmony.
May we all have a fulfilling New Year, beginning today.
Lately I have been thinking about how the time we give to people,places, and things that capture our attention to the point of obsession throws otherwise balanced areas of our lives off kilter and causes deficits in other areas of our lives. We then create our own Attention Deficit Disorder of sorts.
If we by escape throw ourselves into seemingly harmless activities, or cling too tightly to people, or submerge ourselves at places ad nauseam because those elements give us some kind of relief or quiets something within us, it causes us to become deficient in some form or another.
I find that it causes deficits in activities that we once enjoyed but have stopped participating in because our escape activity has taken over. It causes deprivation in meaningful relationships with others because the one or more people we are overly drawn to become the center of our world.
Hiding or hanging out excessively at places that are relatively harmless causes deficits because opportunities we have to go elsewhere and experience new things are squelched or diminished because we can't get beyond or chose not to go beyond our place of escape.
Could it be that we all suffer from a little attention deficit disorder at one time or another? Giving our selves and our attention, to people, places and things that seem harmless, and because our attention becomes so fixated on these things, we create deficits, chaos and disorder in other areas of our lives that were once balanced?
The first month of the New Year is quickly coming to a close. I feel its never too late to reevaluate where we are in life and make changes that would encourage growth. Today let's consider what is unbalanced, chaotic, disorganized, and what we give most of our attention to, so that we don't continue to struggle with our own form of Attention Deficit Disorder and perpetuate meagerness in areas of our lives that were designed for order, balance and harmony.
May we all have a fulfilling New Year, beginning today.
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