YYYFriday, February 16, 2007
Today was a great day! Thank you God for this beautiful day, and this wonderful class!
I really should be more thankful for all the blessings in my life! I keep wallowing in my present (unimportant) frustrations and troubles, being totally ungrateful for and taking for granted all God's blessings.
Dear Lord I pray for a thankful and grateful heart. A heart that is humble, that will look beyond myself and toward others. I pray that I will be less self-centered and less caught up in this temporal world. Instead, I should be focusing on Your purpose for me in this life, and trying to fulfill this purpose. Lord please help me to discern Your voice, so that You may lead and I may follow. Help me to say "speak Lord, Your servant is listening", instead of trying to talk
to You all the time.
It seems I always have the same old problems. If you look at my blog posts they are always about the same things- worrying too much, being too caught up in myself etc. But I think that there are certain lessons God wants us to learn. After you learn them you don't get a break, it's time to move on to another lesson. Sometimes you have to relearn lessons when you forget. It's sort of like revising. Our relationship with God is a never-ending, always changing, always improving one. When I look back though, I see that I have come a long way. I have learnt many lessons. Some lessons do take a very long time compared to others though. So yes, I shall take heart and press on towards a better relationship with God!
Nice verses from purpose driven life!
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Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails"- Proverbs 19:21
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A sense of God's wholeness... will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life."- Philippians 4:7 (It's about how when you start worrying a lot you know that God is no longer the center of your life. How true!)
Time to sleep! It's a brand new beautiful day tmr!
I shall end off with this poem, which Kylie sent for Vday, in an attempt to sound lit-y (not referring to Kylie haha):
i thank you God for most this amazing by E. E. Cummingsi thank You God for most this amazingday:for the leaping greenly spirits of treesand a blue true dream of sky;and for everythingwhich is natural which is infinite which is yes(i who have died am alive again today,and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birthday of life and love and wings:and of the gaygreat happening illimitably earth)how should tasting touching hearing seeingbreathing any-lifted from the noof all nothing-human merely beingdoubt unimaginable You?(now the ears of my ears awake andnow the eyes of my eyes are opened)
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