Update - H
Hm...what to write...
A lot has been going on lately. J has been throwing crazy tantrums over sleeping. It's been exhausting, and so the latest remedy is to cave and just let her skip her nap. That's much more bearable than suffering an hour of her crying in desperation. Seriously, if you heard her, your heart would be in pieces.
I went to a conference in human trafficking that was held locally. I was really glad to have gone. I was hoping to get some kind of business idea or something that I could talk to a friend about who is probably going the route of "kingdom business" overseas in the not-so-distant-future. However, that didn't happen. Instead, God challenged me about a lot of things, but I guess mostly about the cost of following Christ and whether I was willing to pay it. I don't want it to sound like it's a bad thing. It's just a reminder that the live to follow Jesus is a radical thing, and the question is whether I am willing to live that kind of life for His sake. That question is still officially on the table. It's sort of a scary question to answer.
I was introduced to a Christian music artist at the conference, P. Wickham. We'd sung his songs at church, and I really like them, but I didn't know anything about the author of those songs. I'd never heard of him and didn't pay much attention. I've recently learned a bit about him though, and I'm quite blessed by his love for the Lord as well as blessed and impressed by his talent. What first drew me to learn about him more was that some of his songs resonated with me and were about the same themes that God's been speaking to me about lately, and the lyrics are so poetic and depicted the images so well.
What's been most life changing though has been the clarity of vision I've had since realizing that God's intention for a relationship with us/me was always love, that that was the foundation from the beginning when he created Adam. I've always appreciated God's love, but I think it's always been selfish on my part, wanting only to know about God as the God of love perhaps to the exclusion of the other parts of His person and character. However, I have a more correct understanding of that Divine Love and the effect has been to clarify my understanding about the other parts of God's character, as if these other parts are informed by this first foundational characteristic of love. (Does that last sentence even make sense?)
Anyway, so now I finally understand what people have meant when they've talked about the Bible being this love story between God and his people. It makes more sense to me when we talk about his majesty or that he is Lord of lords. Not that these are even directly related to the fact that He is love, and yet in some way they are, in some way I have come to understand what these mean in light of His love for me. It's kind of strange but so delightful.
A lot has been going on lately. J has been throwing crazy tantrums over sleeping. It's been exhausting, and so the latest remedy is to cave and just let her skip her nap. That's much more bearable than suffering an hour of her crying in desperation. Seriously, if you heard her, your heart would be in pieces.
I went to a conference in human trafficking that was held locally. I was really glad to have gone. I was hoping to get some kind of business idea or something that I could talk to a friend about who is probably going the route of "kingdom business" overseas in the not-so-distant-future. However, that didn't happen. Instead, God challenged me about a lot of things, but I guess mostly about the cost of following Christ and whether I was willing to pay it. I don't want it to sound like it's a bad thing. It's just a reminder that the live to follow Jesus is a radical thing, and the question is whether I am willing to live that kind of life for His sake. That question is still officially on the table. It's sort of a scary question to answer.
I was introduced to a Christian music artist at the conference, P. Wickham. We'd sung his songs at church, and I really like them, but I didn't know anything about the author of those songs. I'd never heard of him and didn't pay much attention. I've recently learned a bit about him though, and I'm quite blessed by his love for the Lord as well as blessed and impressed by his talent. What first drew me to learn about him more was that some of his songs resonated with me and were about the same themes that God's been speaking to me about lately, and the lyrics are so poetic and depicted the images so well.
What's been most life changing though has been the clarity of vision I've had since realizing that God's intention for a relationship with us/me was always love, that that was the foundation from the beginning when he created Adam. I've always appreciated God's love, but I think it's always been selfish on my part, wanting only to know about God as the God of love perhaps to the exclusion of the other parts of His person and character. However, I have a more correct understanding of that Divine Love and the effect has been to clarify my understanding about the other parts of God's character, as if these other parts are informed by this first foundational characteristic of love. (Does that last sentence even make sense?)
Anyway, so now I finally understand what people have meant when they've talked about the Bible being this love story between God and his people. It makes more sense to me when we talk about his majesty or that he is Lord of lords. Not that these are even directly related to the fact that He is love, and yet in some way they are, in some way I have come to understand what these mean in light of His love for me. It's kind of strange but so delightful.
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