Aware – Salvador

Just purchased Salvador’s song Aware on iTunes.  Amazing song. Here are the lyrics:
Even in the little things
That never seem too big to me
And the things that I thought
Didn’t matter much at all
As simple as my daily bread
To the strength I need to get out of bed
When I fly, when I’m about to Fall
It’s you and me
And [...]

Passing on the torch II

The following verse seems to tie in with something I posted earlier this month:
Ecclesiastes 2:21 (ESV):
“because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. [...]“
 
 

The ultimate cover-up

Since the beginning of time people have enaged in pseudo-cover ups, ranging from fig leaves to euphemisms. Just today I noticed my cat futilely attempting to cover up a mini-mess.  Did she not realize there were no resources for her to use to cover it up? Just a-pawin’ to no avail…
Indeed, our efforts will not [...]

2 Tim. 2:13

if we are faithless, he will remain faithful, [...]

God’s footprints are always there, even if we’re so focused on our tracks we don’t see where He’s going and where He’s leading…
Psalm 77:19-20:
Your path led through the sea, 
your way through the mighty waters, 
though your footprints were not seen.
You led your people like a flock 
by the hand of [...]

FOR God and OF God

All for God
2 Chronicles 19:6-7a (ESV):
[Jehoshaphat] [...] said to the judges, ‘Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment. Now then, let the fear of the LORD be upon you.
Salvation is God’s
2 Chronicles 20:15b, 17 (ESV):
(15b) ‘Do not be afraid and do [...]

The Book of Common Prayer

Tidbits from The Book of Common Prayer:
BUT, O God, who knowest the weakness and corruption of our nature, and the manifold temptations which we daily meet with; We humbly beseech thee to have compassion on our infirmities, and to give us the constant assistance of thy Holy Spirit; that we may be effectually restrained from [...]

The Lord’s Prayer

HT: girl talk

From the Desiring God blog

Don’t Neglect Reminding, by John Piper
Doubt Your Perception of Suffering, by Jon Bloom
Another Shade of Glory, by David Mathis

I need Thee every hour…

From the article Hour by Hour: It’s Always Time to Pray, by Jim Tonkowich:
One concern I had was that the project would be burdensome. After all, I was having enough trouble trying to have one “quiet time” each day and now I wanted to have five. Strangely, I’ve found five easier than one. Once I [...]

Poppies & Corn

“Poppies & Corn blowing in the wind” 
              Photo by emjulien

Snippets from the article The Beauty of a Commonplace Life, by Nathan Zacharias:
In his essay, The Poppies in the Corn, F.W. Boreham finds inspiration in a poppy field he saw as a boy in Beachy Head, UK. As he recalls the field, he talks of the strikingly [...]