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This [sense of spiritual abandonment] is one of the most bitter sufferings of this purgation. The soul is conscious of a profound emptiness in itself, a cruel destitution of the three kinds of goods, natural, temporal, and spiritual, which are ordained for its comfort. It sees itself in the midst of the opposite evils, miserable imperfections, dryness and emptiness of the understanding, and abandonment of the spirit in darkness.
John of the Cross
Mark Water, The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations (Alresford, Hampshire: John Hunt Publishers Ltd, 2000), 2.
I’m not stuck. I chose to be here.
Suspended between motion and control,
I turn stillness into presence.
"Плод же Духа: любовь, радость, мир, долготерпение, благость, милосердие, вера, кротость, воздержание. На таких нет закона ... Те, которые Христовы, распяли плоть со страстями и похотями" (Гал. 5:22-24).
Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent
71 In you, O LORD, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
2 In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!
3 Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
4 Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
5 For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O LORD, from my youth.
6 Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother’s womb.
My praise is continually of you.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ps 71:1–6.
16 Thus says the LORD:
“Stand by the roads, and look,
and ask for the ancient paths,
where the good way is; and walk in it,
hand find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Je 6:16.
Ever-Present Love
Deuteronomy 31:6; Psalm 71:5
Mountains, when in darkness hidden, are as real as in day, and God’s love is as true to you now as it was in your brightest moments.
CHARLES SPURGEON
Elliot Ritzema and Elizabeth Vince, eds., 300 Quotations for Preachers from the Modern Church (Pastorum Series; Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2013).
1 Timothy 1:15
15 The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), 1 Ti 1:15.
Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good!
Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
9 Oh, fear the LORD, you his saints,
for those who fear him have no lack!
10 The young lions suffer want and hunger;
but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
11 Come, O children, listen to me;
I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
12 What man is there who desires life
and loves many days, that he may see good?
13 Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from jspeaking deceit.
14 Turn away from evil and do good;
seek peace and lpursue it.
15 The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous
and his ears toward their cry.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ps 34:8–15.
Luke 11:9–13 (ESV)
9 And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 11 What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 12 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
help find Ansy's marbles! Pretty please!!
image 3 of 3.
thanks Mel for being my tripod today when I didn't bring my tripod out to play. She just held it and I pressed the self-timer button and quickly ran off.... hehe....
funnily enough today's church sermon was on the parable of the Lost Coin.
"This month the power of self control is ingrained within us. Voluntarily shackled while being trained and detoxified, determination frees the spirit. It is lifted to another level of consciousness, and existence; the restraints bring guidance and liberty that cannot be described through words. One has to go through it to understand."
-Honest
Song of Solomon 4:8
8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride;
come with me from Lebanon.
Depart from the peak of Amana,
from the peak of Senir and Hermon,
from the dens of lions,
from the mountains of leopards.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), So 4:8.
And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court, and said, “O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you. Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend? And they have lived in it and have built for you in it a sanctuary for your name, saying, ‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before you—for your name is in this house—and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’
(2 Chronicles 20:5-9 ESV)