sublime transition

walking with and seeing God

2008-07-26T07:08:00.000-07:00

God brings me to places in my walk with Him
not so i can see the place
not so that i can hold on to it
not so that i can stay there
but, He brings me to places
so that i can see more of "Him"
know Him
then, as i continue to hold onto Him
He can take me to the next place

proverbium~words put forward

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart;
and lean not unto thine own understanding.

In all thy ways acknowledge Him,
and He shall direct thy paths.

acknowledge
1553, a blend of M.E. aknow (from O.E. oncnawan "understand," from on + cnawan "recognize;" see know) and M.E. verb knowlechen "admit." Somehow, in the merger, a parasitic -c- slipped in, so that, while the knc- became a simple "n" sound, the -c- stepped up to the plate to preserve, in this word, the ancient "kn-" sound.

know
O.E. cnawan (class VII strong verb; past tense cneow, pp. cnawen), from P.Gmc. *knoeanan (cf. O.H.G. bi-chnaan, ir-chnaan "to know"), from PIE base *gno- "to know" (cf. O.Pers. xšnasatiy "he shall know;" O.C.S. znati, Rus. znat "to know;" L. gnoscere; Gk. *gno-, as in gignoskein; Skt. jna- "know"). Once widespread in Gmc., this form is now retained only in Eng., where however it has widespread application, covering meanings that require two or more verbs in other languages (e.g. Ger. wissen, kennen, erkennen and in part können; Fr. connaître, savoir; L. novisse, cognoscire, scire; O.C.S. znaja, vemi). The Anglo-Saxons used two distinct words for this, witan (see wit) and cnawan.

wit (n.)
"mental capacity," O.E. wit, more commonly gewit, from P.Gmc. *witjan (cf. O.S. wit, O.N. vit, Dan. vid, Swed. vett, O.Fris. wit, O.H.G. wizzi "knowledge, understanding, intelligence, mind," Ger. Witz "wit, witticism, joke," Goth. unwiti "ignorance"), from PIE *woid-/*weid-/*wid- "to see," metaphorically "to know" (see vision).

vision
c.1290, "something seen in the imagination or in the supernatural," from Anglo-Fr. visioun, O.Fr. vision, from L. visionem (nom. visio) "act of seeing, sight, thing seen," from pp. stem of videre "to see," from PIE base *weid- "to know, to see" (cf. Skt. veda "I know;" Avestan vaeda "I know;" Gk. oida, Doric woida "I know," idein "to see;" O.Ir. fis "vision," find "white," i.e. "clearly seen," fiuss "knowledge;" Welsh gwyn, Gaulish vindos, Breton gwenn "white;" Goth., O.Swed., O.E. witan "to know;" Goth. weitan "to see;" Eng. wise, Ger. wissen "to know;" Lith. vysti "to see;" Bulg. vidya "I see;" Pol. widziec' "to see," weidziec' "to know;" Rus. videt' "to see," vest' "news," O.Russ. vedat' "to know").

laure's poem

2008-07-25T10:11:00.000-07:00

sometimes...
is the blog of laure
please go there
and read her poem
entitled
father, how

GRACE WALK ~ the REST of the story

2008-07-25T08:13:00.000-07:00

i read the whole thing,
and i don't know what to say

you know,
i just don't know how to put it into words

honestly, i think that it's a really good book
that can be used to impart truth
to a heart and mind prepared to receive it

it seems that it was the right time
for me to be reading this book

through this book
through you
through even more than i know...
God has brought me to
another place in my walk

like i said...
it is a good book

God's Love to you

i am in Love, again

2008-07-22T08:37:00.000-07:00

dear brothers and sisters,

i have found myself in Love with Jesus again.

it is like i have come around the circle to that again, i remember this from the days that i was in college and very new to this feeling of Love in Him. i was overcome with this Love then, and i am overcome with it again. it is the same Love.

i have learned more from the bible since then, i had taken leave from my Father and then returned to His open arms. and now, i am remembering what it was like to be in Love with Jesus. i have remembered the Gift that i left behind so long ago.

when i am in love, there is desire to be with the one i love, talk with, spend time with, experience the pleasure of just being with the one i love. that is what it is like to be in Love with Jesus, going about with a silly grin of joy in my heart.

i think that other people might have other descriptions for this place, but, i find that being in Love is the best description for me. the feelings are similar to being in love with a person, but the scope is a bit different, more of the heart, but, also the mind and soul. it is a wonderful and special kind of Love that we can depend on and give our whole self to.

when i am in Love, i naturally want to dwell there,
and i want to abide with Jesus in the Love of God.

i think that God has Love to share with us,
and it is His best GIFT to us.
we can dwell and abide in this Love.
we can trust in this Love.
this Love inspires faith and sharing.

it stirs the heart to want to Love Him more, to be Loved by God and to be in His Love is very much like being in Love...but, a brand new Love.

we can understand it in terms of being in love with another person, and having them love us. we can understand it in terms of having someone in our life that loves us just the way we are.

we can try to relate it to what we know. then if we go there with God, we find that it goes beyond our expectations, beyond our knowledge or experience.

we can go into this Love and be completely and absolutely Loved, and a whoosh of utter joy floods into us.

we are taken-up into it.

but, we must first allow our heart to go there. and we can.

think Love thoughts to Jesus,
tell Him how much you Love Him,
it is a wondrous Love to be in

there will be no other choice
because you will want more of His Love
there will be no thought
about needing to focus on Jesus
for you will want to abide with Him

i want to be in Love with Jesus
and i never want to fall out of Love again

the post before this one
is a youtube of some beautiful sisters
singing "Jesus Loves me"
and it is just wonderful...

just see the Love of Jesus that
fills the hearts of those that are listening
and let it fill yours.

2008-07-21T10:58:00.001-07:00

yes

Spring Up O' Well

2008-07-20T07:32:00.001-07:00

Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

john 4: 13,14

in the garden

2008-07-18T11:26:00.000-07:00

i was weeding the garden this morning
when i was getting started
i decided to praise and connect to God in the Spirit

while i was down on my knees in the dirt,
getting small pieces of grass and other weeds
out from between the peas on one side of me,
from between the beans on the other side,
and even some from the dirt in front of me,
making my way slowly down the row;
i started to watch myself pull the bits of weeds
from out of the dry and sometimes hard dirt.

the thought of how others
were not helping me
to pull the weeds
crossed my mind

right then God spoke...

you pull the weeds

you are taking care of this garden
slowly, lovingly, caring for this garden
giving it a chance to grow

this is what i do with you

i was humbled
i was thankful

i thought about this more and
i knew this is what God is doing with me
and that
this is also what He wants to do through me

there is a need for patience beyond my reasoning
there is a need for humblness beyond my feelings
God has His reasons and His timing

i am still amazed at how God comes
and speaks into each life
right where we are

LOOKING AND FINDING

2008-07-16T10:19:00.000-07:00

i have noticed that

if i am looking for something wrong
i find many things that are wrong

if i am looking for something right
i find many things that are right

if i am looking for Jesus
i find everything

it's a "NOT MY POST" post, where i like to post someone else's post...of course!

2008-07-15T14:09:00.000-07:00

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Grace and truth
Discipleship requires balancing truth and grace (as a sister in Christ recently explained), but each Christian usually leans too far toward one or the other. If we’re truth tellers we may gush out truth for the benefit of those around us, but they may end up being swept away by the torrent. These truth tellers are sometimes called legalists.If we’re all about grace, we may spare feelings by never speaking hard truth, but those around us may never know how far they’re wandered. These gracers are sometimes called wimps. But if truth and grace, both good qualities, can cause trouble if unallayed, how do we balance the two?In Christ. When Jesus came into the world he was “full of grace and truth. . . For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (John 1:14, 17). Finding just the right balance between grace and truth may not be easy, but if keep our eyes on Christ, we won’t wander too far out in either direction.

(c) Copyright 2008, A. Milton Stanley

from "MILTON'S NOT SO DAILY DOSE"
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 POSTING

When God Shines His Light On Me

2008-07-15T07:16:00.001-07:00

hummmm......

2008-07-13T11:25:00.000-07:00

sometimes,
i think too much,
and Love too little

2008-07-12T18:17:00.000-07:00

summer
summer
summer
summer
summer
.
SUMMER!

YEA!

what can i say?

2008-07-11T21:23:00.000-07:00

.
i have completely run out of things to say.

kat has nothing to say either...

update on preacherman, aka, kinney

2008-07-10T07:45:00.000-07:00

here is a post from kinney's wife, tess.

light

2008-07-09T11:33:00.000-07:00

light the lamp
burn and shine
the energy is endless
it is forever

grace walk - chapter one - miserable mediocrity

2008-07-09T09:44:00.000-07:00

i am sure that i can not learn all there is to know about
the grace of God from this book.
i do not expect to.

i like that the book is titled "grace walk"
because we walk in the Grace of God
and in this walk with God,
the Holy Spirit shows us what Grace is.

while reading chapter one,
i have learned that God is always everywhere.
He is where i am and waiting for me wherever i go.
He is waiting for me to come to Him,
to a place where i come with my self,
carrying my views of how things are
and how i think that things should be....
and lay it down.
a place where trust and faith in God becomes Grace.
a place of relationship and Love.
a place where God speaks, relates and works.

If you want to read more commentary on "Grace Walk",
hop on over to Ed's place at "cross the road".

pray

2008-07-08T21:45:00.000-07:00

say a prayer for preacherman
and his family

Esther-Faith's temper fit

2008-07-08T13:44:00.000-07:00

you have to read this post :-)
"Overheard at the HennHouse"

july

2008-07-06T21:03:00.000-07:00

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.

~Robert Louis Stevenson

"to do" list

2008-07-04T06:35:00.000-07:00

go, with God, in the world
share
work
play
Love

see brothers and sisters
eat together
wash their feet

rest in God

continue

continue
c.1340, from O.Fr. continuer (13c.), from L. continuare "make or be continuous," from continuus "uninterrupted," from continere (intransitive) "to hang together" (see contain). Continual is early 14c., from O.Fr. continuel, from L. continuus. That which is continual is that which is either always going on or recurs at short intervals and never comes to an end; that which is continuous (1642) is that in which there is no break between the beginning and the end.

what am i doing here ?

2008-07-03T07:04:00.000-07:00

what in the world
am i doing
sitting here
typing words onto a screen
entering my thoughts
onto a blog

the reason is
i think

relating

telling others
about my
thoughts

listening
to the thoughts
of others

sharing

not only do i like it

i think it is good

the eight dollar hotdog

2008-07-01T17:02:00.000-07:00

the june 29th post at spaghettipie

just a thought

2008-07-01T07:16:00.000-07:00

could it be

sometimes

what i am wanting

from someone else

might be

what God wants

from me ?

this thought came to me this morning
when i was thinking of what i was wanting from
someone else.

if i would just stop when i am wanting someone to act,
be, or look differently...and just consider
what is my purpose in this?

is this thing that i want from this person,
something that God wants from me?

is there something that God wants to give here?

if i look at myself for a moment, does this
show something in myself that i should see?

i so easily say "you", "we", or "they" in my thoughts,
when more often i could be saying "i" and "me".

what is God saying to me?

i think i might hear God better if when i raise up
my arm to point a finger at another person or
people, if i make a u-turn with my finger and
point it to my heart and then to my head and
give it another thought.

reading...will take about 10 minutes. but, worth it.

2008-06-30T20:34:00.000-07:00

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1140917/1/index.htm

you will go out in joy and be led forth in peace...instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.

2008-06-29T09:26:00.000-07:00

"Come,

all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;

and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!

Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor

on what does not satisfy?

Listen,

listen to me,

and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.

Give ear and come to me;

hear me,

that your soul may live.

I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David.

Isaiah 55

come,
come to the waters...

you will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace...

instead of the thornbush
will grow the pine tree,

and instead of briers
the myrtle will grow.