He is jealous for me,
Loves like a hurricane,
I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realize just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.
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"Oh How He Loves Us"
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The Dream Keeper
"Bring me all your dreams,
You dreamers,Bring me all of yourHeart melodiesThat I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-clothAway from the too-rough fingers
Of the world."-Langston Hughes -
'dig in your heels'
"'That's just life. You can fight it or you accept it. The only difference is, if you accept it, you get to do other things. If you fight it, you're stuck in the same spot forever. Does that make sense?'
But aren't some things worth fighting?
'You know that's true.'
So how do you know which is which?
'I don't know a way to tell for sure,' she said. 'You ask,'Why am I really fighting this?' If the answer is 'Because I'm scared of what things will be like,' then, most times, you're fighting for the wrong reason.'
And if that's not the answer?
'Then you dig in your heels and you fight and fight and fight. But you have to be absolutely sure you can handle a different kind of change, because in the end, things will change anyway, just not that way. In fact, if you get into a fight like that, it pretty much guarantees things are going to change.'
He nodded. He knew she was right but he hated what she said. A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn't stop change in general. Rivers can't run backwards. Yet, he felt there must be an alternative, neither willfulness nor resignation."- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle -
Witnessing Genocide
4 years ago, in 2005, my fellow university students and I protested silently on our campus to tell the world about the crisis in Darfur.
Today, I sit amongst humanitarians, human rights investigators, physicians, nurses, and advocates of justice who have already been to Darfur. They've heard the stories, seen the horrors of the camps, cared for the sick and the displaced. And the stories sadly, are the same as what I heard in then, because nothing has changed. In fact, the situation is getting worse...400,000+ dead, over 2 million displaced...
Will we just stand by and watch?
“Let us remember: what hurts the victim most is not the
Cruelty of the Oppressor, but the Silence of the Bystander.”
- Elie Wiesel
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from "Where I lived, what I lived for"
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were
sublime, to know it by experience, and to be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."
-"Walden" by Henry David Thoreau -
to love others in the same way
"Love is an indefinite thing to most of us; we don’t know what we
mean when we talk about love. Love is the loftiest preference of one
person for another, and spiritually Jesus demands that this sovereign
preference be for Himself (see Luke 14:26 ). Initially, when "the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit" ( Romans 5:5 ),
it is easy to put Jesus first. But then we must practice the things
mentioned in 2 Peter 1 to see them worked out in our lives.The
first thing God does is forcibly remove any insincerity, pride, and
vanity from my life. And the Holy Spirit reveals to me that God loved
me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.
Now He commands me to show the same love to others by saying,
"there are fears that if aid does not reach the victims more quickly,
many hundreds of thousands of people could die." - (myanmar) BBC NEWS". . .
love one another as I have loved you" ( John 15:12 ).He is saying, "I will bring a number of people around you whom you
cannot respect, but you must exhibit My love to them, just as I have
exhibited it to you." This kind of love is not a patronizing love for
the unlovable— it is His love, and it will not be evidenced in us
overnight. Some of us may have tried to force it, but we were soon
tired and frustrated."The Lord . . . is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish . . ." ( 2 Peter 3:9 ).
I should look within and remember how wonderfully He has dealt with me.
But the response makes little difference for some - such as these
parents,
who have just identified the body of their child at the ruins
of a school in Dujiangyan. -(china) BBC NEWSThe knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me
to
go into the world to love others in the same way.I may get irritated
because I have to live with an unusually difficult person. But just
think how disagreeable I have been with God! Am I prepared to be
identified so closely with the Lord Jesus that His life and His
sweetness will be continually poured out through Me? Neither natural
love nor God’s divine love will remain and grow in me unless it is
nurtured. Love is spontaneous, but it has to be maintained through
discipline." -oswald chambers~ ~ ~
according to world vision, there are 2 things we can do:
1) pray.
2) donate. (see CNN compiled list of agencies delivering aid to china & myanmar).
3) anything else? i want to help but i don't know how. -
i never had to worry
"this was her nurse. when she took care of her,
i could go home and sleep at night.
i never had to worry."(the work is hard, but-
still the best job ever.
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"the long road home"
"If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a multitude of experiences that are not meant for you at all, they are meant to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what transpires in other souls so that you will never be surprised at what you come across.
The sufferings of Christ are not those of ordinary men. He suffered "according to the will of God," not from the point of view we suffer from as individuals. It is only when we are related to Jesus Christ that we can understand what God is after in His dealings with us. It is part of Christian culture to know what God's aim is. In the history of the Christian Church the tendency has been to evade being identified with the sufferings of Jesus Christ; men have sought to procure the carrying out of God's order by a short cut of their own. God's way is always the way of suffering, the way of the "long road home."
Are we partakers of Christ's sufferings? Are we prepared for God to stamp out our personal ambitions? Are we prepared for God to destroy by our individual decisions by supernaturally transforming them? It will not mean that we know exactly why God is taking us that way, that would make us spiritual proud. We never realize at the time what God is putting us through; we go through it more or less without understanding; then we come to a place of enlightenment, and realize -
God has strengthened me, and I didn't even know it!"
-My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers
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Greatest writer since Shakespeare
frank: "You know Marcel Proust?" dwayne: "He's the guy you teach."
frank:
"Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he uh... he gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing."-little miss sunshine
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One of the Fine Arts
"Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art,
it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation,as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is
the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble,
compared with having to do with the living body,
the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts:
I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts."- Florence Nightingale~ ~ ~
Happy Nurses Week! Please tell the nurses who care for your family
and friends how much you appreciate them!
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