May 16, 2007
-
Don’t ask questions if you don’t want an answer. so many questions are not really questions at all–they are polite fronts. and most of the rest of questions…the person does not want to hear an answer anyway. it is rather a lose/lose situation for the one being questioned.
it is a horrible thing to wake up one morning and realize you can’t remember the last time you prayed for anyone besides yourself or having to do with your situations.
why is it so easy to be self-centered? Burn the midnight oil. but i am scared to make the sacrifice of not sleeping. i need sleep. i like sleep.
Sobre o abrigo pasam, lentamente, os sonhos que nem se ousam sonhar. “Looking towards heaven can be seen the dreams that simple people dare not have.”
someone asked me “what if you love Brasil just because it is all you have ever known.” then they pointed out how they had loved milk chocolate until they met dark chocolate and now realized it was really the dark chocolate that they had loved all along…If you stop at the first thing you enjoy, how do you know it is the best? how do you know you won’t like something better?
you don’t. you make a choice. some things you just know. what if i am only a Christian because it is the first thing i ever tried? good then. because it is what i want, what i am satisfied with. what i know is true. some people think this is a little box. close-minded. yep.
Maybe i will go to another country. other ministries in my life. maybe some day i might even like dark chocolate. but Brasil is where God has me now. and i believe that. i believe in this ministry and what God is doing. When you have that feeling…somehow the need to go out an experience everything else fades and loses its power over you.
there is something beautiful about that…being happy where you are. in other things, it is just a beautiful to have a hunger and drive to see and try all things new–to explore and discover and learn. oh! to learn the art of moderation. not of excess or of elimination.
Comments (1)
Beautiful thoughts! It’s so hard sometimes for other people to understand what God puts on your heart. But with in yourself you have God’s peace and joy in what He gives you to do.