Spring Is . . . A Strange Word for a Season, Really

Yesterday, Time was lapping at our ankles.

It's turned into something almost deep enough to drift in, now.
If we stand still and wait for a whisper, we can't help but see the waters rise.

Time carries our hope on his wings,
and Mortality bears us on his.
All until the day they meet; eternity is unmasked;
Time flies away, finally freed;
and hope fulfills his path, becoming memory.
We will know every promise of Truth fulfilled,
because Jesus is faithful.

P.C. Mom

P.C. Mom

"In fierce March weather
White waves break tether,

"And whirled together
At either hand,

"Like weeds uplifted,
The tree-trunks rifted

"In spars are drifted,
Like foam or sand."
~W. Shakespeare

Inception: A Guest Post from carmy4myarmy

"A post-stamp is like a broken telephone." ~Mob Barl

"Sense and Sensibility"

"There's nothing like running into the forest with a Spoon in your hand."

"I WANT A MAARMMALAADE CATT." ~Teeter Tan

"I thought I'd gone to Costco, when I realized I'd been stabbed by a strawberry." ~Hawk Town

"The Awkward Moment"

Eb and Gb, the magical combo.

"Why does Barney love us?"

littlebunnyfoofoo

Dreams

Really

Do

Come

True.

Operation Pololu

Aiden Wilson T.
"Everything is made to center upon the initial act of 'accepting' Christ
(a term, incidentally, which is not found in the Bible)
and we are not expected thereafter to crave any further revelation of God to our souls."

"We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists
that if we found Him we need no more seek Him.

"I want deliberately to encourage a mighty longing after God.

"The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. 
The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result
of our lack of holy desire.  Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth.

"Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation
of Christ to His people."

"He waits to be wanted."
~A.W.Tozer
(The Pursuit of God)

1 John 3:18-20
"Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue
but with actions and in truth.

This then is how we know that we belong to the truth,
and how we set our hearts at rest in His presence
whenever our hearts condemn us.
For God is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything."

It's very easy to say you love someone.
Even to tell God you love Him.

But words alone can't keep a relationship living;
we have to have a love alive with actions and alive in truth.
We all know fleeting, flawed, and broken 'love';
what enduring love is there?

A silent kind of love, an invisible love, the love that affords us
the ability to sacrifice even when no one will ever know it. 

It's a love we don't own;
something we weren't born with.

And yet some possess it.

Some belong to it, and live by it.
This enduring love comes from God.

 Because before we can ever achieve being someone who loves,
we must receive this new identity from the only One who gives it, God.
He gives Himself.

First He imputes us with His love, and then, slowly, we find it
welling up from within our new selves: a new heart,
because somehow the deepest part of ourselves has been redeemed.

Somehow beyond me, He saves our souls . . . because of His love.
Because it's who He is.

Our souls are saved by His love.
But our lives are saved by our following that love,
by our pursuing it daily.

 We can acknowledge that this love is good and right,
but we know that following God takes work and time;
we remain unchanged by it,
and we wonder why our lives are empty of worth.

We know we can be changed;
we can hear Him knocking;
but it's what we will choose that defines our destiny.

The worth we long for and which will never fade away can be found.
God has presented us with a new destiny.
He waits to be wanted.