Monday, June 27, 2011

Thoughts // Deeper

Sometimes, it is easier to just sit on the shore.

...Especially when the sun isn't out and waves are choppy.

...It is more comfortable to watch the movement of the sea than to take part in it's movement.
To watch, to even be amazed or in awe of what you see.

...It's easier to remain in the same spot than to
get up, move, change, grow, take part.
...It's easier to take part in a stagnant routine.

...We tell ourselves that it's safer, more logical, it makes more sense.
The people around us don't object to our lack of growth because, in reality, many
of them are sitting on the seashore right besides you and enjoy having you there.

But everyday is a chance to grow.
To go deeper. To step off the shore and into the ocean.
To risk. To truly live. To experience life that takes your breath away...

When you can't feel the ground under your feet...
Yet you know that the strongest foundation is beneath you;
you know that the hands that made the world are holding you.


Let's risk the ocean; there's only grace.

Friday, June 10, 2011

Thoughts // Yahweh

This song is still on repeat in my mind from last night's youth service.


We look to Yahweh, Yahweh
Forever Yahweh, Yahweh
We look to Yahweh, Yahweh
Our hope is Yahweh, Yahweh

It is so comforting to know that no matter what life may bring, I can look to Yahweh; I can put my hopes, my dreams, my everything at His feet. It is so easy to get distracted and caught up in the worries of this life, in today. It’s also very easy to long for yesterday or become anxious for tomorrow. But God's promise is perfect peace for this moment to those who put their trust in Him. No matter what is going on all around, even if I'm in midst a storm at sea, He will sustain me, uphold me, keep me at peace for He is Yahweh, the Lord, my Creator and the Creator of all the earth.

My hope is Yahweh, Yahweh

He shall reign forever

Monday, June 6, 2011

Grace

A constant reminder on my computer at work.
Lest I forget.
*****

For it is by grace you have been saved,
through faith
and this is not from yourselves,
it is the gift of God.
Ephesians 2:8