DISREGARD

If you were unfortunate enough to read the two posts written by my brother without my knowledge....just disregard them. I have deleted them...
I hope he enjoyed his two hours of fame without my knowledge because his life is officially over. That's all.

on regrets

Last night I was thrown the "regret" question by one of my girls:
Do you ever regret? How do you go on from mistakes? Do you ever feel like you have wasted time?

You know the bit.

I had to think for a couple seconds but my answer then, and definitely now that I've thought about it is, No.

No regrets.

Every season of life is crammed with learning and love and experiences. It teaches. I glean.
I struggle. I hurt. I try to get God to give out answers ahead of time. I bang my head against the wall. I don't understand a lot of the time. I mess up all the time. And I always fall into the amazing love and mercy of my INCREDIBLE God.

But no regrets.

Take away segments of my life and mistakes...and take you take away the lessons I have learned.

Lessons like patience. Courage. The incredible mercy of God. The strength you find in Him as you hurt.

Everything is worth something--even if you know NOT to do it again.

So no regrets. Just appreciate the past and milk today for all its worth.

God is always at work. Always.

Heroic confidence! Illustrious faith! Unconquerable love!

Today's reading from Streams In The Desert: AMAZING!

"Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation"



Observe, I entreat you, how calamitous a circumstance is here supposed, and how heroic a faith is expressed. It is really as if he said, "Though I should be reduced to so great extremity as not to know where to find my necessary food, though I should look around about me on an empty house and a desolate field, and see the marks of the Divine scourge where I had once seen the fruits of God's bounty, yet I will rejoice in the Lord."
Methinks these words are worthy of being written as with a diamond on a rock forever. Oh, that by Divine grace they might be deeply engraven on each of our hearts! Concise as the form of speaking in the text is, it evidently implies or expresses the following particulars: That in the day of his distress he would fly to God; that he would maintain a holy composure of spirit under this dark dispensation, nay, that in the midst of all he would indulge in a sacred joy in God, and a cheerful expectation from Him.
Heroic confidence! Illustrious faith! Unconquerable love!

--Doddridge.

Last night I heard a robin singing in the rain,
And the raindrop's patter made a sweet refrain,
Making all the sweeter the music of the strain.

So, I thought, when trouble comes, as trouble will,
Why should I stop singing? Just beyond the hill
It may be that sunshine floods the green world still.

He who faces the trouble with a heart of cheer
Makes the burden lighter. If there falls a tear,
Sweeter is the cadence in the song we hear.

I have learned your lesson, bird with dappled wing,
Listening to your music with its lilt of spring
When the storm-cloud darkens, then's the TIME to sing.

--Eben E. Rexford ll

2008: Just so far.

Who cares if it's only February. My life will never be the same. The following things have (mostly) taken place since 2008 began. Each one has a great story and is partially to blame for my lack of blogging.

1. My little sister and Matthew eloped. CRAZY kids!

2. I...... love Jesus.

3. Our new church is done. It is amazing. No, really. It should be in a magazine.
My own office and lesson studio to boot! Pictures coming soon.

4. I have huge decisions in front of my face.

5. I have been doing the vegan thing for a month now.
Yawwwwssss, I feel maaaaahhhvelous dahling!

6. I'm back in real school. I love when the brain is in pain!

I didn't die! Busy, but not dead! =)