an honest heart poured out...
this just in, i’ve successfully failed at attempting to run my own life. stupidly assuming that i was close enough to GOD that i was immune to the world, i let my guard down and down i went. so here i sit, feeling completely embarrassed of my actions and reactions.
its weird how the domino effect is so easily applied to circumstances in life. one thing after another in a downward spiral. then, suddenly, it all comes to a screeching halt and i wonder how i got to this place. today is that day and, as i look back on the past month and all of its events, i cringe.
how did i become such a slave to emotion and feeling? when did i become so immature? why am i still clinging to broken things instead of CHRIST?
bright side: lessons learned the hard way are the most effective.
its weird how the domino effect is so easily applied to circumstances in life. one thing after another in a downward spiral. then, suddenly, it all comes to a screeching halt and i wonder how i got to this place. today is that day and, as i look back on the past month and all of its events, i cringe.
how did i become such a slave to emotion and feeling? when did i become so immature? why am i still clinging to broken things instead of CHRIST?
bright side: lessons learned the hard way are the most effective.
Audrey reads Katie's post and agrees with every point only in application to her own life. Let's lift each other up.
ReplyDeletePhilippians 2:1-11
1 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMQYVba7ZoE
that's all. lurve you.
Wow--your honest and transparent heart convicts my heart. Amazing how the Holy Spirit can work through thousands of miles, a fiber optic maze, and two computer screens! Your penultimate sentence reminded me of something C.S. Lewis said in *The Weight of Glory*:
ReplyDelete"Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."