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Archive for February, 2009

blessings are coming

do you ever have moments in life that are so intensely wonderful and joyous and hopeful that you just say to yourself “is this my real life?!”
5 days from today i’ll be in Portland, Oregon. living a new life. new joys, new sorrows (hopefully limited to one a month), new blessings, new knowledge, new NEWNESS, [...]

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hard travl’in

Somehow i feel goodness now when i don’t get what i want. It’s almost like fewer and fewer things can hurt me. And it’s not an idea or attitude, it’s actually a change I’ve noticed.
I have softened my expectations…. Not sure if that means i’ve resigned to pessimism or whatever that looks like (like when [...]

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lord! take possession of me!
i pray i would not protect myself against the impact of your love
but be foolishly joyfully taken by you.
i pray for the courage to expose myself to you.
i pray to become unconsiously naked before you.
trust issues and all.
take me and make place for me in your will.

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I think if we got the chance to see/experience heaven, we wouldn’t want to spend even one more minute here on Earth.
 
I’ve read things, and heard testimonies in my childhood church of people that have seen/experienced Heaven… and they just talk about it in a dreamy way, trying to convince the rest of us how [...]

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