Lemonade and Blogs

A week or two ago, I received a blogging award - the Lemonade award - from my friend Natalie. Thanks a bunch Natalie! The award is for "making life a little sweeter," i.e. "if life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

So the deal is that this award needs to be passed on when you receive it. So I am passing it on to Larissa Wolowec. Although I only really got to know her a little bit before she went off for southern Sudan, she's got a big heart to serve the Lord and love people. She will counseling and doing ministries of mercy in the war torn land. So praise the Lord, Larissa, for your labors in Christ.

In times of transition...

A good reminder passed on to me:
The person who is most invested in your gifts is the one who gave them to you.

For Prayer

The admissions office really didn’t pay me to put these up – this place is just very nice in the snow.

So many times I have walked this road that takes me from the house I have called home for the last years to class and my tiny world of study.

Alot of different thoughts have been upon my mind while walking this road. I will miss the bare strip of grass and shoulder.

Time here soon comes to a close (well, in May), but as journeys through the wilderness go, something new is close upon me. What will it be? At this point I cannot say. I would appreciate prayer. Whether I go to this church or that church, near or far (perhaps very far), if I go with your prayer, then I have tremendous confidence for the months and years to come that they will be fruitful.

Pray mostly for my faith, contentment, humility, and trust.

Samuel Rutherford says many things well. Among them: “Your Rock doth not ebb and flow, but your sea.”

The Master Motion

A good word for those as myself who tend toward the spirit of worry and angst:

It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as "O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O the linking of this accident with this time and place!" Look up to the master motion and the first wheel.
-Samuel Rutherford