Love. Post 1of 14

Welcome to Febuary! I cant believe that it is here. This month I am going to do 14 posts on love. Unfortunetly I do not have the opportunity to blog every day but each post will represent the days leading up untill valentines day. I am going to hit on ideas such as what love is and isnt. Maybe show some songs that I feel describe Biblical love, who knows I might even do a crafty one! Lets start.

 These last month I have spent a massive amount of time in Gods word. I've read
*1st and 2nd Peter,
*1st and 2nd Timothy,
*Philipians,
*Colossians,
*1st Thesalonians
*and I am on the 2nd one now.
The last time I read this much of the Bible in such a small amount of time was a few years ago when I tried to read through the entire New Testament in a year. I never finnished or found it very rewarding.
I discovered that the problem was that I was treating it like a text book instead of love letter from the maker of the universe.




Think about it. How do you read a text book?
If your like me its somthing along the lines of
*first figuring out how much I have to read (so I dont go over).
* Groaning at the seemingly ungodly number
*Staring at the clock and trying to determine how much of my life this is asking for
*skim, while highlighting the parts I will need to come back to quickly while studding later on
In essence, learning what I need to learn in the shortest amount of time so I can do somthing that is really interesting...like knitting

But how do you (would you) read a love letter?
*quickly tearing it open with great anticpation
*reading slowly
*carefully
*deeply
*your heart would swell as you read the best parts over and over
*you would keep it in nice condition
* read it on stormy nights, soaking in the words
* memorize parts of it and think of them durring your day to day activities.




Now the God of the universe, who has known you, and planned your life from before he flung the stars into the heavens writes you a letter. The and in it he tells you how much he truly cares for you and how how wants you to live. And that if you fallow this plan of His you are going to do great and wonderful things!
And that he is building you the perfect house in his mansion. Better than any of the ones you could imagine here on earth. He knows you better than you know your self, so it is going to be awsome! He writes of all the amazing things that he has done in the past out of love to you. Such as sending his son, a part of himself, to be tortured, killed, and put in a grave. But not just to do that, but to kill death its self. To make a path for you, his broken little child to come to him.
 
This is the Bible.
This is love.

Found this on pinterest.

It describes me so aptly I felt the need to share it

its not a good part of me, but a part none the less

a reminder that there is much to conquer in my life

like letting the world know that in this broken world not everything can always be fine

Blessing on your spiritual journeys dear readers,

Quippy

He will embrace me in his arms.....

This has been a very busy week or weeks. A very stressful school week is over and I’m now on break....break off of school that is, the fun just keeps on rolling. We've had Birthdays, Baptisms, and lots of dancing with lots of fun, fun people. But I haven’t had a lot of time just to step back and evaluate. Evaluate, where I am in relationship to the people in my life, the stuff that is cluttering up my room, my heart with God, my grades, how I’m spending my time, my fulfillment of my responsibilities... This may sound like something saved for ones lowest moments in life but I try to do it at least once a week, often daily. Because I haven’t had much time for this, is why I think I was hit so hard by when my lovely church performed the most magnificent version of I Will Arise and Go to Jesus. I've never until today really truly appreciated this hymn, this version was slow, low, with a wonderful mix of solo violin and intricate  harmony of a huge choir. It was sweet and true and made my heart sing, and cry, and all the wonderful emotions that only God can fill your soul with. Someday I will get a recording and show it to you all. Until then I will leave you with the lyrics that made me run back to the important things in life. Now by important things in life I don’t mean that life your usual Hallmark food, family, friends sort of thing I’m talking about giving your heart to God daily, to trying to glorify Him in everything, because from that stems the good things like, actually enjoying the things like doing the dishes, and homework. Making hard choices like friends not as painful and true Godly friends all the more joyful.

This is the Joseph Hart version

1. Come ye sinners, poor and needy,

weak and wounded sick and sore,

Jesus ready stands to save you, full of pity, love and power,

2. I will arise and go to Jesus,

He will embrace me in his arms;

in the arms of my dear savior,

O there are ten thousand charms;

3. Come. Ye thirsty come and welcome,

Gods free bounty glorify

True belief and true repentance,

Every grace that brings you nigh

4. Come, ye weary, heavy-laden,
Bruised and ruined by the Fall;
If you tarry till you're better,
You will never come at all:

5. View Him prostrate in the garden,
On the ground your Maker lies!
On the bloody tree behold Him,
Hear Him cry before He dies

6. Lo, the incarnate God, ascended,
Pleads the merit of His blood:
Venture on Him, venture wholly,
Let no other trust intrude

I would like to break this hymn down for you. Sometimes we just look at hymns and say 'Oh, that's nice" and don’t actually look to see the deep meaning behind them.

1st, stanza tells us that God is ready for us, He wants us now, the way we are, He wants to save us.

2nd, this is about running to God and letting him carry you through the trials and tribulations of life, and in doing so we can experience more joys than we could have imagined.

3rd, He welcomes us as we are, every kind of grace calls us to him, we must only believe and trust

4th, come as you are, if you wait until you are complete and full, you will never be able to come at all

5th, our maker suffered terribly

6th He is God, He is whole, go to Him, His blood will save you, let nothing stop you



I dearly love this hymn, and I hope this gives you a little clearer understanding of the beauties of this hymn. Hymns are look over as old fashioned and hard to understand, they may have been written at a different time, but man has always had the same struggles, just manifested in different ways! I hope this gives you a little peak into the beauty of hymns and the awesome meanings the hold.

Happy Thanksgiving

Quippy

Confessions of an Autodidact*

*Please note this very controversial post was written late at night by a very sleepy girl.
Some of you lovely people, who are most likely dividing your attention between my thoughts for the day and the show New Girl (which I might add was WAY over hyped for what it turned out to be) might not know that I am a sort of autodidact (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/autodidactic) (ya, that’s right, I knew you would need that.) By "sort" I mean this, I have always been homeschooled but as I got older I began to teach a few subjects to myself, such as literature, history, and math. This year I go to school 3 days a week at a special school (for us awesome people who don’t really know what kind of school their doing) for 1 to 3 hours and then come home, swim in homework and teach myself history and math. So I’m not a true autodidact but like I said, there really isn’t a name for what I do. All this is a lead up to the fact that I have had very tiring school week. And (that’s right mom, I just started a sentence with "and") what I mean by tiring is that feeling that your brain is just like a clock, doing what you are supposed to do and say but not really meaning or feeling anything. If someone showed me a 30 second video and asked me what I thought of it, well, I can see three possible answers. 1. I fall asleep, 2.My eyes melted like in Indiana Jones and I flew away with butterfly wings 3. I wouldn’t even know. At this point I’m not really sure which one is more likely than the other. I am now wondering (now this is going to sound silly but don’t be a hater) if this is what public schoollers feel like. I really have no idea what it would be like to sit and listen to teachers talk from 9-4 and then go home and try to recreate what they taught me. Us less traditionally taught people often get annoyed at those in the system because a majority of those people seem in a way, all the same. What I mean by this is girls straighten their hair, put it in a pony tail, wear track shorts and a white v-neck. Or skinny jeans with straight layered hair, and too much eye liner. Of course this isn’t all of them, I know public schooled people who aren’t like that at all, but as a majority they seem very similar. Also to be in this school setting you must play a sport, after every game you must facebook how you love your team mates, and how your team beasted. Show picture of you and your besties in a dressing room playing dress up, with your heads tipped down. This of course is the girls and once again I must stress that this is the impressions I get from allot (not all) public schoollers. This seems like a very long rabbit trail but it has a point. The point being that I wonder if one of the reasons they act a certain way (besides wanting to be being popular) is because they always feel how I feel right now. So mentally "done" that one has no personal feelings or convictions left. Wow this is a long post...I can almost feel my eyes beginning to drip, and some sort of flutter on by back...but I really wonder, because the homeschooled crowd can be exceedingly judgmental as I have learned from personal experience, if this strange conforming habits those kids get into to is because they (as I feel now) just don’t have any mental room left. I could completely be wrong, I probably am, but its an interesting thought none the less.

p.s It is surprisingly difficult to come up with quotes I feel like showing the world, so when I can find none I shall post my favorite song (which changes at least once a day)
Fever by Michael Buble'

Progression

Life is a progression, and once you finally feel settled you must move on. I have always been fascinated by the progressions of things, even when I was a child. Life is always looks greener on the other side of a progression and getting over the fence is always more difficult  and scary than you expect, and the grass that you thought was more green isn’t more green, in fact it whole either color like blue that before you never fully understood, so you learn about that blue and eventually you know the blue so well that you walk around with your head held high showing off your blue, until you run into another fence because your head was in the sky and its awful but you climb it in search of more blue, but instead of more blue on the other side, you find.... Purple

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