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the green, green grass.

October 18, 2008

the grass is green right here. come, sit, stay and talk awhile. every moment that we live and breathe and experience is real life and its ridiculous that we believe its not. i have lived 21 and a half years which apparently count for nothing because i have not been living in the “real world.”…

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a passing thought.

October 17, 2008

May we not be so bent on adhering to our rules and principles that we forget we are dealing with real people and real hearts. May we be tender and compassionate. Let us have ears to hear and eyes to see whats underneath.

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everything stopped. i stopped.

October 13, 2008

i am pretty frustrated (which often translates into anger) that i haven’t updated in awhile. i dont typically like to post unless i feel strongly about something and feel led in some way to write. to write in hopes that i will be better understood and that others will be encouraged to be honest with…

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Meghan G

i think sometimes you really just can’t have words to explain it. the movement of the Spirit can’t be summed up into a formula given to others. its like you said…you have to be surrendered, you have to let go of all, in order for His moving to come in. only He can take you into sustained hope and joy within trials and confusion and pain. it’s all God. we just have to give ourselves over to the process. i think that’s the hardest part is continually giving ourselves over when it doesn’t seem like anything is changing. we have to choose to look to the unseen because our God is an invisible God whose workings are done in the Spirit and aren’t brought into the seen immediately. to me, i think that would be the “threshold” talked of is, no longer looking at what’s seen but to what’s unseen in the Spirit.

ok, so i kind of just got going and don’t really know if i took a tangent or not but…yeah, that just kind of came out.ReplyCancel
Louanne

It’s very true that no one can go there with you and you can’t lead anyone there. But as brothers or sisters in Christ (or for real *wink*) we can pray for each other about these issues. I am glad to see that you are getting all this stuff out there.

Something from a prior blog of yours has been bouncing around in my head the last 4 days or so and it was the comment that “people told you that college was going to be the best years of your life” or something like that.

And it keeps coming back to me because I think every single year since I became a Christian has gotten better and better. Even when I think it’s not possible it does. So I have decided that the prior comment is propaganda of people who look back at college with rose colored glasses.

Does that mean that every year has been with out trial or struggle? Nope. Next month is the 10 year anniversary of the car wreck that nearly took my life as I almost bled to death on the side of the road. I wouldn’t change that wreck for anything in the world.

God used that wreck, pain, heartache and fear to show me that He is always there. And to show me just how valuable and precious my life was. I have to admit that back when I was 23 – I didn’t always clearly see that. So I want to encourage you that the end of life isn’t college. There is so much more out there and so much joy and HOPE to be found.

Anyway, now I have rambled on for too long, but you know I love you and am always praying for you.ReplyCancel

swimming in the deep.

October 2, 2008

so…matt chandler. i know that i have mentioned him a lot recently, and maybe not so much here, in this space, but if you have ever been a part of the texas a&m/texas/baylor christian community, then you know he is highly influential. being that he is a solid pastor/person/husband/father, that is not a bad thing….

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but how shall we hope?

September 27, 2008

the past few days have been difficult as i have struggled to make sense of the place of hope in life. while i understand that our overarching hope is in God (and that there is a place for hope in eternity spent with Him, whatever that looks like) i sincerely wonder about hope for things…

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the green, green grass.

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everything stopped. i stopped.

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