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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. 

Dwight Lyman M.

Entering the sunset zone with these ace waveriders whom I am not fit to share rides with . . .

They take me along anyway, since they're boss like that.

(neighbouring cactus)

 What do you get when you add sugar and savagery?

Scampi. 

Classy, Riesa. 

  "Happiness is caused by things which happen around me, and circumstances will mar it,

"But joy flows right on through trouble;
joy flows on through the dark, joy flows in the night as well as in the day;
joy flows all through persecution and opposition;

"It is an unceasing fountain bubbling up in the heart;

a secret spring which the world can't see and doesn't know anything about.

"The Lord gives His people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to Him."
~D.L.Moody

Daily Kona

More of a just-pictures post right now . . .

enjoying 2013 with my family.

                                               like xiph ate green $ @carmy4myarmy
                                                                                  [Chad]

                                                                            Lyman's

                                                                    (banana flowers)

                                                                     Chad's Jackson

fishfood

finding your glasses in the closet

A favourite of Paul's urgings:
Ephesians 4:1-3
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

Superbowl Sunday, Hawaiian Style

weekend + waves + brother + friend + GoPro =

                                                For around half of these shots, Chad had the
                                                   camera mounted on the front of his board;
                                                the rest of the time I got to try out being filmer.
                                                      What do you think of the results? (: