Chris commented yesterday that after several hard days and hard posts from [me], [he] was strangely relieved to just see a Friday Five on mundane stuff like hair. Believe me, those posts have been part of the reason I’ve survived this week. It’s been healing to be able to blog out my feelings on things and just write about things. The other way I’ve been surviving is singing along to my various hymn CD’s while working on my computer at home. “My Life Flows on in Endless Song” is doing more for me right now than “Shout to the Lord”. (I just wish that the arrangement of the former wasn’t instrumental so that I could have some words to post. Ah well… I’ll get it off of Cyberhymnal later.)
Some wisdom from this week:
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. ”
-Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if i go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. you know the way to the place where I am going.”
-John 14:1-4
“For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
-John 3:16-17
“I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes–I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!”
-Job 19:25-27
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”
-Proverbs 3:5-6
“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
-Matthew 6:33-34