Hey everyone:)
It's been a while, and lots has happened!
Annual Meeting happened. And was amazing. as usual. :)
Tamara Marie & Janel May came up afterwards to spend almost a week up here! Also amazing! Except i was majorly sleep deprived. Mmm i wonder why. ;)
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Anyway, right now i'm reading Authentic Beauty by Leslie Ludy, and i was just going to write out a few things that really struck me.
""Let's take a good long look at our relationship with our Prince. Have we built our entier life around pursuing intimacy with Him in the inner sanctuary of our heart? Or, like most young Christians, are we merely trying to fit Him into our life whenever it is convenient? It is so easy to assume that just because our life is filled with "Christian" activites, "Christian" friends, "Christian" music, and "Christian" books, we are building it around Christ.
A young figure skater with the dream of winning an Olympic gold medal does not just read about skating, listen to advice about skating, and hang out with other skaters. She devotes her heart, soul, mind, body, energy and time to skating. She gets up before dawn, practices tirelessly for countless hours, and spends every spare moment of her days, nights, and weekends on the ice. The kind of passionate, unyielding dedication is a picture of what it means to build our life around intimacy with out Prince in the inner sanctuary of our heart. Don't settle for hearing about intimacy with Him, singing about intimacy with Him, or reading about intimacy with Him; really discover true intimacy with Him by building your entire life around Him. A life built around our Prince is the essence of what it means to be His lily-white princess.""
Wow, really something to think about. It really opened my eyes. There's something else that caught my attention as well, it's about (Dreams).. :)
""We each have a dream--something we build our life around, something that gives us a spark of energy in our day to day existence. Without dreams we simply wither up and die. If our dream is ballet, we envision ourselves on stage elegantly dancing like a radiand cherub before an awe-inspired crowd. Is our dream is singing, we see in our mind's eye a throng on their feet cheering as we belt out a powerful melody. Some of us dream simply, while others of us dream with Technicolor ambition. But we all dream. It is our dreams that define our life. It is our dreams that define the way we spend our time.
We all dream, but a set-apart young woman dreams quite differently than the rest of her female contemporaries. Instead of dreaming dreams that bring her to center stage in society's spotlight, she begins to dream God's dreams for her life. And God's dreams cause her to seek her Prince above all else, prior to all else, and at the risk of all else. She becomes fantastically preoccupied with her gallant Jesus.
To be a great ballet dancer demands time, and a lot of it. And to develop an angelic singing voice takes countless hours of intensive training. To be great at anything demands great amounts of time. To be great at knowing our Prince is no different. It takes time--and lots of it. It demands that every last drop of our physical energy be focused on Him. He can't be conveniently fit into our life; He must become what our lifestyle is built around. From the moment we wake up until the moment we go to sleep, He must become the center. And when He does, we quickly realize that God's dreams unlock the beauty of life itself.""
mm, it's a very good book! I reccommend it, for sure. So, ponder what i've written and i will leave you with that...
Iiii'm outa here.
Lots of love. xoxoxxx*mandi
2 comments:
I like that book..It's got some really good points in it. You know, out of the two of us, one of us has to post on our blogs so keep it up! :)
me too! very good! & yeah. i'm trying. and kinda failing. but whatever. :)
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