love is all around you now... so take a hold
faith will bring a way to the impossible...
Journal created:
on 18 May 2001 (#140331)
Updated:
on 25 May 2021
Name:
charis
Location:
California, United States
"I swear, more than once tears came to my eyes. My breath caught in my throat, and my heart was pierced time and again by pangs of longing--a hunger for completeness akin to worship. For, merely walking through that perfect glen, I was reminded of my gross poverty of spirit. That simple natural beauty could move me so, struck me as both a revelation and a shame. Was I really so bereft of wonder in my life that the sight of a sun-dappled hillside could provoke such powerful feelings?
In this radiant paradise of a world I felt deeply the privation of years of wandering through life blind to the beauty around me. And I regretted it bitterly. I was a blind man granted sight, and I both cherished the gift and lamented the waste and ignorance that it revealed. I walked as one drunk through a land at once alien and intimate in the smallest detail."
-an excerpt from stephen lawhead's the paradise war
"'for I know the plans I have for you,' says the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you. plans to give you a future and a hope" - jer 29:11
"for God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of sound mind." - 2 timothy 1:7
"i want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, and so, somehow, to attain resurrection from the dead." - phil 3:10,11
In this radiant paradise of a world I felt deeply the privation of years of wandering through life blind to the beauty around me. And I regretted it bitterly. I was a blind man granted sight, and I both cherished the gift and lamented the waste and ignorance that it revealed. I walked as one drunk through a land at once alien and intimate in the smallest detail."
-an excerpt from stephen lawhead's the paradise war
"'for I know the plans I have for you,' says the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you. plans to give you a future and a hope" - jer 29:11
"for God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of sound mind." - 2 timothy 1:7
"i want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, and so, somehow, to attain resurrection from the dead." - phil 3:10,11
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