Oh Tilly
How did I know you but – Not?
How did I look in your smiling eyes
And not see the pain behind?
How did we talk so long and so deep
But still not deep enough?
Tilly
Greatest calling? Well – ‘A’ calling.
I don’t know yet about the ‘greatest calling’ part of this – or how that’s meant to look – but it certainly has been my experience that God will use my most searing hurts as a connector to others in theirs… so if that’s my greatest calling it is fine with me. I LOVE that God does this… He won’t waste a single hurt if we’ll let Him do His thing…
2 Cor 1:3-5 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.
Truth and grace
Truth without grace crushes.
Grace without truth enables.
VSP 🙂
Loving well
“It’s all about love isn’t it… it’s about learning how to love well.”
“We think love is going to be easy – and it is easy – but it’s only easy when it’s easy…”
These were remarks made in a HS discussion group today.
• Loving well won’t always be easy.
• Loving well won’t always be felt as such.
• Loving well involves truth and light and application toward the future.
Interested in others thoughts – what else do you see about what it is to ‘love well’?
“Choose Your own Post Script”
Here’s a “Choose Your own Post Script” to a famous story…
The next day after all the partygoers had feasted and danced at the celebration, they began to gather at the city gates to discuss the events of the previous. There were many opinions expressed and many left shaking their heads.
Continue reading ““Choose Your own Post Script””You’ll disagree
What encourages you?
Some from me:
1. Perspective
2. Information not previously known
3. Information previously known but forgotten or misunderstood or misapplied now revealed
Continue reading “What encourages you?”Understanding
Understanding someone else’s opinion doesn’t mean we have to agree with it. Seeking to see something through someone else’s eyes doesn’t necessarily render our own perspective false.
Continue reading “Understanding”Epiphanies!
It is a strange, stark, scary, wonderful, desperately sad, terrifyingly eye opening, amazing thing when finally seeing you’ve held inconsistent or opposing ideas that simply cannot coexist and therefore undermine and undercut each other.
Strange because it has not been seen before. The thoughts in opposition have lain deep below conscious thought.
I love you thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis much and more
“I love you” is everything and yet not enough.
Q: When you’re full to bursting point, how do you express it?
VSP 🙂