All this Waiting

...all this blessing,
shows me hope neither rests nor will ever find itself sustained in
promising job leads, a future of travel, my appearance, the food I eat, social networking activity,
or striving after anything
but God and all He is and promises for each of our lives, for His glory.

Radiohead and dreams and these are the days.

Espresso and What the Rest of the World Already Knows

Do you think European coffeehouses tout flavored syrups?  Could it be the espresso is what's important?
Have you ever heard of an Africano drink?  A Belgique? A Denmarko?  Maybe they've got a shared understanding of what thispresso stuff is really about.  And so the Americano?  Is it because we've watered everything down?  Not only do others value the espresso for what it is, they like it, happy to structure their understanding around it without changing it.
Our forty syrup flavors - and sugar free too - do they testify to our insistence that the world cater to our personal taste?  That we might never be able to palate the bitter liquid itself but just give us some vanilla or hazelnut and okay, okay, we can swallow that if we have to.  We're happy to die to everything worthwhile as long as we can have it our way.

                                                       

Help Me Remember

My mantra, trust
my mind, Your heart
my tongue, Your audible peace.  Thank You for loving me.

Library of Congress Photos and Prints collection on 'Love'

 

From above image:  "Victory through Christ" Society holding its Sunday Morning Revival in a garage. Dos Palos, California. Testimony: 'He's such a wonderful savior, Glory to God. I'm so glad I came to home. Praise God. His love is so wonderful. He's coming soon. I want to praise the Lord for what he is to me. He saved me one time and filled me with the Holy Ghost. Hallalulah! He will fill your heart today with overflowing. Bless His Holy name.'"

More love.

A Christessential V-day Love Verse Post

"We love because he first loved us."

"My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can't know him if you don't love.
This is how God showed his love for us:
God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God."

"My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. No one has seen God, ever. But
 if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us—
perfect love!"


"One of the religion scholars came up. Hearing the lively exchanges of question and answer and seeing how sharp Jesus was in his answers, he put in his question: 'Which is most important of all the commandments?'

Jesus said, 'The first in importance is, 'Listen, Israel: The Lord your God is one; so
love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.' And here is the second: 'Love others as well as you love yourself.' There is no other commandment that ranks with these.'The religion scholar said, 'A wonderful answer, Teacher! So lucid and accurate—that God is one and there is no other. And loving him with all passion and intelligence and energy, and loving others as well as you love yourself. Why, that's better than all offerings and sacrifices put together!'When Jesus realized how insightful he was, he said, 'You're almost there, right on the border of God's kingdom.'"

(Who is Quint, anyway?)

What's left

but to love and trust?

have we lost It?

 Not completely fond of the top half of the image except maybe for its emphatic acknowledgement of everything above.  What I really love is the way Adam and Eve appear so comfortable and unashamed in their naked state together, relaxing with God.  Such purity! Such peace!  Have we?

Op2? 1.0?

Ludicrously Blessed

Trust, trust, trust, trust, trust.

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