Sat, Mar 29th - 9:28AM

Hey

"Holding a grudge is like drinking poison hoping someone else will get sick"

"Sweet Revenge"
    Barlow Girl

Did you see that I was hurt?
Did you know that you had left me crying there?
Now I'm holding all you words close till you feel this pain too
But you live on so unaware
While I thought somehow this hate would heal me
But this hate is never ending and it's only killing me
Oh sweet revenge you've lied again
I find I can't get free till I release this vengeance that I seek
Forgive you the only thing I want to live I'm ready to be free
Maybe you've been wounded too
Maybe all this is your self protection
All the hurts you thought were hidden
Are the one now hurting me
So who will make the pattern end?
I find I can't get free till I release this vengeance that I seek
Forgive you, the only thing I want to live I'm ready to
Break these chains
Won't see this through
'Cause setting you free means my freedom too
I find I can't get free till I release this vengeance that I seek
Forgive you the only thing I want to live I'm ready to be free

Thu, Mar 13th - 9:42AM

Quote from Erica Haub's blog:

"On a mission trip in Honduras a few years ago, we were all sitting with some of the villagers around a fire in the evening. One of the members of our team said, "Let's all go around and share our favorite Bible verse."

This sort of thing can be tough for us scripturally challenged Methodists! Someone mentioned John 3:16, somebody else said 1 Corinthians 13. A Honduran woman said, through a translator, "I love that passage toward the end of Luke's gospel, where Jesus says that the world is coming to an end, the moon will turn blood red, and everything will be burned and disappear. Such a comfort."

That's her favorite Bible passage? A comfort?

A nurse, sitting next to me whispered, "I talked with that woman in the clinic today. She has had four children, three of whom died in infancy because of hunger."

Then it hit me. Sometimes the difference between bad news and good news (gospel) is where you happen to be when you get the news. What sounded like bad news to me, "This world, which has been so good to you and your family, is ending. God is going to destroy all of it. This isn't the world God wanted; this is the world you built" seen through the eyes of the poor, is good news, gospel."

Wed, Mar 5th - 9:57AM

Hey,

As you can see, not much original thinking going on. But ...

I Believe In Love

Barlow Girl

Sat, Mar 1st - 12:59PM

TAKE MY LIFE
Third Day

How many times have I turned away
The number is the same as the sand on the shore
But every time You've taken me back
And now I pray You do it once more.

Please take from me my life
When I don't have the strength
to give it away to You Jesus
How many times have I turned away
The number is the same as the stars in the sky
But every time You've taken me back
And now I pray You do it tonight.

I guess this is where I'm at right now. I don't want to look for a new church for a while because I know we'd be just comparing. On thing for sure that I learned is that the pastor of my church is way too important to me. That makes sense since I went through so much to hire one. But we need to get to where we go to church focused on worshiping God and not relying so much on a pastor leading us there. I'm pretty sure that we will be fine and in church by summer, trying to find a more healthy attitude and amount of involvement in ministry. Thanks to those of you who have followed this journey. I hope you found something about it that was helpful in your church attendence, Maybe I'll get back to posting here regularly eventually. I know that it would be a sign that I was spiritually healthier.