From Ms. to Mrs.: June 2010

We are half hearted creatures, fooling around with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us. Like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. C.S. Lewis

This is by far one of my all time favorite quotes. This was something that God used in changing my heart and bringing me back to him and it always gives me a huge heart-check. When you think about it, every one of us is half-hearted. We don't truly believe that God can satisfy. We go on trying to write our own stories and we don't give God full control. God promises us that he will satisfy our every desire. He is the wellspring of life. (John 4:14) So why don't we take his word for it? Has he ever led us to believe that he will not fulfill his promises? No. Never. Yet, we continue to be satisfied by the mud pies. Even those of us who have experience the holiday at the sea...how often do we find ourselves returning to the slum? Christ freely gives us love everyday. FREELY. The only thing he requires is that we hand him the pen to our story and allow him to take control. When we do that, we are open to experience true joy and life the way it was meant for us. I don't know about you but a holiday at the sea sounds so much better than making mud pies. I don't want to control my own life. I am surrendering the pen of my life to God and allowing him to write a story much sweeter than the one I could write on my own. I don't want to be easily pleased by the things the world offers me. I'm going to hold heavenly standards and not settle for anything less because I've learned God's plans are better than my own (: He gives me a billion times more than I deserve because of his extravagant love for me. What else could I do but surrender to him and serve him with my entire life?

Luke 9:23 Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me."

2 Corinthians 5:14-15 For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died and was raised again.

Philippians 4:19 And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

holiday at the sea.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

random blog of lists.