so today is the most beautiful day ever!! i was taking the baby i nanny for a walk and it was just snowing!!! huge flakes of snow!! every now and then i had to stop because it was so overwhelming..then i would lift my face to the sky and let the flakes fall on my face...i seriously couldve cried it was so beautiful!! i started praying and then " ( Read more... )

"We ourselves are not our own, our bodies, our souls, are not. All souls are mine, says God; for he is the former of our bodies and the Father of our spirits. Our tongues are not our own; they are to be at his service. Even those of the children of men that know him not, nor own their relation to him, are his ( Read more... )

The living, the living, he shall praise thee. They may do it; they have an opportunity of praising God, and that is the main thing that makes life valuable and desirable to a good man. Hezekiah was therefore glad to live, not that he might continue to enjoy his royal dignity and the honour and pleasure of his late successes, but that he might ( Read more... )

ITS POURING OUTSIDE!!! i love it sooo much. i love life as of this moment. it feels really raw and unsure..or something like that. i found out a couple of days ago that i get to go with bessie on her outreach in may to either western europe and bosnia or nepal and india!! amazing huh? i know! you can all pray for me about that! i think i'll ( Read more... )

i read today in jeremiah about Judah and how they turned from God and turned towards idols and their own selfish desires and basically forgot God who had taken care of them and blessed them with more than they could ask for. then God sent plagues and drought and crazy stuff on them and it made me think of my own life and how in so many ways i deny ( Read more... )

I read this today as my devotional...its so true..."Is there an easier way to being God's person than through enduring tribulations? Believe me: I've been looking for one. But I must honestly say that it has been the dark, difficult times of testing in my life which have brought me to where I am today. I thank God for the occasional mountaintop ( Read more... )

i think its absolutey amazing when you realize something that you never did before. today i realized that all my "woe is me..i dont have a job..im so bored.." complaining is so lame. this time in philadelphia has been amazing..i have learned so much. im thankful that i havent had a job. if i wouldve had a job i wouldnt have had all this time on my ( Read more... )

Let us dream. Let us prophesy. Let us see visions of love, peace and justice. Let us affirm with humility, with joy, with faith, with courage, that You, O Christ, are the life of every child, woman and man. (From a South African women's prayer)

"This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I ( Read more... )