Cud

I have decided to start reading 1 Psalm a day. I started with Psalms 1, imagine that! Not a very long Psalm, compared to 119, but it is filled full with insight and wisdom.  The three points that I reflected on are:

Refuse to follow the moral orientation (lifestyle) of the world. Be different, set apart, live a prophetic life style saying that there is another way, a better and healthier way and His name is Jesus. (Please note this is NOT an eaiser way, in fact the opposite is true it will be harder, tougher and rougher but it is the only way to life everlasting. Amen).

Mediate: mutter to yourself in pursuit of insight (to know and follow God’s Word). I love the imagery of this, Christians just going through out their day muttering scripture under their breath over and over again, like a cow chewing it’s cud.

I am blessed to be a blessing: a tree bears fruit not for its self, but for others (This metaphor really made me think).

I would suggest chewing on that for a day: you are blessed not for yourself but for others.

Ready and Willing? Really? Are YOU?

It has been a while... http://www.thewarcollege.com/?p=2328

There are a row of house in San Francisco called the Painted Sisters. These house reminded me of the Painted Sisters, only aged and in disrepair. They made me sad. Shortly after taking this picture, I found out that the leaders of 614 had bought the middle house, and had plans to someday maybe have all three! Oh what hope, these old ladies soon will have new life in them!

My Rock

In the darkness I see no Light. Where are you?
In the chaos I hear no Peace.
Where are you?
In the pain I feel no Hope.
Where are you?
In the fear I am consumed by doubt. I have lost Joy.
Where are you?

I have not forgotten the Truth, I only cannot find Him.

Goodbye sanity, goodbye blue bird. My prayer is that someday soon you will return to me with an olive branch, and then I will once again see the Son, I will feel the warmth of hope on my face and peace will fill me.

I long for that day, when I no longer will be bond by this mortal body with its evil desires. I will at last be free, completely free to be truly human, fully human, no longer a shadow in this waste land.

I will be a real live girl in a whole new world.

Oh what a moment that will be! I must feast on this vision, never letting it slip far from my heart or I will lost, forever.

The assurances that there is more, better greater, far superior, absolutely mind blowing is the thread that keeps me from unravelling into the abyss of never ending sorrows, of hell.

Hold onto, cling to with your dear life, never let go.

We each get one chance to eternal freedom, eternal bliss. All this can only and will only be found in the man who is God, Jesus Christ, my Lord and Saviour, the Lover of our broken souls, the Rock on which I stand today declaring that He alone is worthy of all our praise, honour and glory.

Bonhoeffer's Life Together

This past week was Reading Week and we actually were given books to read! Imagine that reading on Reading Break hahaha. Jonathan took the time to pray and pick out a specific book for each of us. I appreciate the thought and time that went into this process, because I trust that the book selection was one inspired by my Father. I have included an extended version of my book report. Please do not think reading this report excuses you from reading it yourself. I recommend you read Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, especially if you live in intentional community or desire to someday.
Life Together is a book written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer In which he explores what it means to be a Christian community through and in Jesus Christ. Life Together is a significant exploration of the Christian faith lived out in Christian community. Bonhoeffer argues that Christian community is not an ideal, but a divine reality, and it is a spiritual reality not a psychic reality.

To read the full report: http://www.thewarcollege.com/?p=2317

The View

This is the view from my room in the slum hotel, The Empress.

Take a moment to look out your window, What is your view?

Really Really Really

There was a little girl who had big dreams, really good dreams of becoming a doctor, traveling the world and helping all the little children.

As this little girl grew she worked really hard in school, getting good grades, and she volunteered with charity groups. She sat on the student council, and she was valedictorian at her grade 12 graduations. Her parents were so proud of their little girl, because she was such a good girl; she worked so hard she deserved all the good things in her life.

This not so little girl anymore, went to college and then to medical school. The whole time she worked even harder than before, she never partied and she still made time to volunteer. She was a good person.

One day this now a women graduated from medical school, she was now a doctor, all her hard work paid off.  This doctor joined Doctors Without Borders, she travelled the world helping all the little children.

Many many many years later this doctor had become a little old lady. She no longer was a traveling doctor, she no longer could practise medicine, she no longer was helping all the little children, and she no longer could volunteer. This little old lady sat in her rocking chair, rocking back and forth back and forth, day after day. She thought about all the good things she had done. This little old lady thought about how she had lived out her really good big dream, she had gotten all she had ever wanted.   Now this little old lady sat all alone in her big house, rocking in her chair. She had no family or friends, there had never been time for such things, she had been busy being a really good person. As the little old lady sat and thought about her life gone by, she started to think about what would happen after she died. She had never given much thought to death or afterlife, because she had been too busy saving the lives of all the little children. This little old lady decided that if there were a Heaven she would be going there for sure, because she was a really really really good person. 

A short time later, while she peacefully slept in her comfy bed, this little old lady took her last breath.

When she opened her eyes she saw a great bright light. From the light came a voice that sounded like a roaring lion. She fell to her face and began to weep. The voice asked her “who do you say I am?” In between sobs she explained that she was a really really really good person, she had never done anything bad, she was valedictorian, she volunteered her whole life, she was a Doctor Without Borders… the voice cut her off and said “Away from me, for I never knew you.”

The end.

WHAT!?

Does this upset you? It should! She is a really really really good little old lady, why did she not get into Heaven?

We can only get into Heaven by accepting the gift of God through our belief in Jesus. There is nothing you can do to earn this, even if you are a really really really good person, it is a gift from God (Ephesians 2:8).

I have some really really really good news for you: God loved the world (that includes you) so much that he gave his only Son (aka Jesus), so that whoever believes in Jesus will not be cast away but instead will get eternal life! God did not send Jesus to condemn the world (that includes you), but instead so that the world (again you) might be saved through Jesus! (John 3:16-17).

Do you know Jesus? Does he know you?