i feel strange!

I forget the gospel.

Father,

I take your most glorious, awesome, loving, kind, painful, evil moment and bury it deep in the back of my mind. You and I both know how ridiculous the gospel really is. No one, not one, would believe without He who transforms eyes, hearts, ears. My sinful heart, the factory of idols, works everyday to destroy Your throne and replace it with worldly, temporal things. It’s even worse now. I know they are nothing compared to Your majesty. And yet, still. I forget and destroy and rebuild Your altar in my heart. Forgive me of this blasphemy and idolatry, for many times, the new god is me. Lord of lords and King of kings, would you remain my Master forever. Would you overthrow and destroy all that is unworthy of the throne. May you reign in my heart forever until that day I will bow before Your throne.

In Jesus’ name, I pray.

Amen.

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 proven Himself faithful. There is only one thing I really need. And it is secure.

Fabienne Harford

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the truth: your wildest desires are nothing without Jesus.

God is good not only when He makes sense to us, but even when He doesn’t.

“The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His.”-George MacDonald

i miss you tonight, darling

in a sweet, loving way. no longing involved…just a light breeze.

hope you’re well.

:]

When laying with you I could stay there
Close my eyes, feel you here forever
You and me together, nothing is better

‘Cause there’s a side to you that I never knew, never knew
All the things you’d say, they were never true, never true
And the games you play, you would always win, always win

But I set fire to the rain
Watched it pour as I touched your face
Well, it burned while I cried

‘Cause I heard it screaming out your name, your name
I set fire to the rain
And I threw us into the flames
When we fell, something died
‘Cause I knew that that was the last time, the last time

i need to

watch my words

stop thinking i’m better than people

love myself

not be envious of others

remember the standard

love, love, love everyone

thegreatest

Once I wanted to be the greatest

two fists of solid rock

with brains that could explain any feeling.