SO, I DANCE!

In "The Divine Embrace," a book by Ken Gire, he shares the following quote from The Baal Shem:


"A musician was playing on a very beautiful instrument, and the music so enraptured the people that they were driven to dance ecstatically.  Then a deaf man who knew nothing of music passed by, and seeing the enthusiastic dancing of the people he decided they must be insane."
Gire goes on to say:


"Those enraptured by the music are driven to dance. Those deaf to the music are driven to critique the dance of others."

So... I DANCE!

FAUST: The Story of "Every Man"

I remember it vividly.  I was young.  It was late at night, or early morning.  I had finally stopped to sit down.  It had been a long day. Two small children require a lot time and energy.  Maybe I was vulnerable.  Maybe I was emotional.  I don't know.  Escaping the reality of my exhaustion, I turned on the small black and white television.  Flipping through the only four channels available, I stumbled upon an intriguing moving picture.  It was an old silent film with captions.   The movie was in progress, but I was hooked before I could casually dismiss it.  The scene was the devil and a man.  The man, Dr. Faust.  It could have been "Any Man".  The battle was between good and evil.  The choice, excruciating.  I was peering into the window of struggle.  In fact, I was witnessing a reality of the human soul.  I was transfixed.  What follows is indelibly etched in my mind.

Be Still...

Is it possible?  Do we even KNOW HOW?   Listen and allow God to speak.
"BE STILL...AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD."  (Psalm 46:10)

"Ask the blind man, he saw it all"

Secular: So what does that mean?

In "A Slice Of Infinity", the online daily reading presented by RZIM (Ravi Zacharias International Ministries), Ravi Zacharias says:

"The central feature of that outlook assumes that this world—the material world—is all that we have by which and for which to live. Any view of a spiritual essence or of otherworldliness is by definition considered irrelevant or irrational. Secularism, or "saeculum," is implicitly "this worldly." LINK

In other words, secularism states: THIS IS ALL THERE IS. LIVE IT UP (jgr)

So is there more than what meets the eye?

The Bible says, "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard the things that God has prepared for those who love Him; but God has REVEALED THEM TO US by his spirit."

Come To Jesus (Chris Rice)

To Paul

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Journaling in the bad times AND the good times:
Journaling is acknowledging that life happens. "The rain falls on the just and the unjust." God is good...all the time. Life is all about "repentence"...changing our mind...about life, God, truth, justice, faith, humility and wisdom. "God hath not chosen the wise or the prudent...but the foolish things to confound the wise." Boy, that's not how I would have done it if I were God. But then... :)

What has God taught me about second chances?
I can only say what I have learned about God's limitless grace and mercy, that God is faithful even when we are not, that His ways are HIGHER than our ways and that God uses "dung" to make the flowers grow. (He does, you know.) My life story is in the song: "If there ever were dreams that were lofty and noble, they were my dreams at the start... (check it out "Something Beautiful") I'll finish writing this and send it to you in blog form. Thanks for the question. Thanks for your faithfulness. Don't quit!