I’ve been sick this week. After a huge party to celebrate my 40th birthday – which was amazing – Penny got sick last weekend and then I caught it, mainly in my sinuses. I am not sure why being sick always brings waves of grief on me, but it does. Perhaps because Anita took care [...]
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I found this on Anita’s computer titles “Read me” and dated December 21, 2006. It is a passage from Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. Counting The Cost, By C.S. Lewis: “The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self–all your wishes and precautions–to Christ. “Christ says ‘Give me All. I don’t want so [...] In today’s devotional of My Utmost for His Highestby Oswald Chambers, he uses the phrase “spiritually distracted”. I think that accurately describes how I often feel. It’s not hard to be distracted spiritually. This world is full of things to take one’s mind off of God. On Saturday, I got cable. We had shut it off [...] No sin is worse than the sin of self-pity, because it obliterates God and puts self-interest upon the throne. – Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest As one of my daily devotionals, this sentence spoke to me. My constant effort is to put God first, both in my thoughts and when considering my actions. But [...] Sin…is always a substitute got legitimate suffering. It is an attempt to obtain the pleasure that does not rightfully belong to me or evade the pain that does…Sooner or later, you have to turn and face the pain that makes the temptation so attractive. Sooner or later, you have to run to God. When I look, [...] Okay, it’s been two months since I wrote on this blog. If I had written every time I thought about writing, I would have written 40 times. Instead I was busy, tired, overwhelmed – basically, struggling. Great things happened in the last two months, but they were often overshadowed by bitter, painful feelings. Such is [...] I’ve got to stop thinking “I need to get away from it all”. That’s the thinking that leads me to follow the Devil’s temptations and distract myself from God and His purpose for me. I need to try to see God in it all. Brother Lawrence described doing everything for God “with an even, uninterrupted composure and tranquility [...] I found this free floating note card in a box of papers and things. Anita has written on it in black Sharpie: Fear not the future; This one was something of a mystery to me – not what it meant but what it meant to Anita and in what context. A Google search [...]
In Anita’s book The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life by Hannah Whitall Smith, Anita underlined this paragraph in chapter six, “Difficulties concerning faith”. You have trusted Him in a few things, and He has not failed you. Trust Him now for everything, and see if He does not do for you exceeding abundantly, [...] Inside the front cover of Anita’s book Secrets in the Dark by Frederick Buechner, she wrote some notes. This one jumped out at me this morning: 11/27/06 You have only one decision to make: to follow God or not. If you choose to follow God, you cannot fail. Your life is your ministry. It’s no secret and no [...] |
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