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I don’t think I’m ready. I’ve been thinking about it over the last few days, and I’m just not ready to blog again.
In fact, I’m not even sure that I like blogging anymore.
The truth is this: I haven’t really needed to blog because I’ve been talking to so many people lately who are listening, really listening, to what God is doing in my heart. The blog was a way for me to get my thoughts out of my system…sometimes I felt that I just had to blog or I’d burst. But I don’t feel like that anymore.
So here goes another break…indefinitely.
I’m taking an indefinite blogging break. I haven’t had the desire to blog much lately. And I haven’t had much time for it either. Truth be told, real life has been taking up my time, and though I’ve had much on my mind, I simply don’t think about sitting down to blog about it. I’ve recently joined a small group of women–we’re meeting once a week. And I sense that God is going to bring about some deep healing in my heart. My emotional life has been turbulent lately, but it’s been a good and productive kind of turbulent. As one of the ladies said in my group, God is allowing some deeply buried pain to “float to the surface.” I think He’s lancing some long-forgotten wounds. It is beautiful, terrifying, and painful all at the same time. I would appreciate your prayers as I journey through the coming months. I hope that, in the future, I will be able to share a bit about what God is showing me. Until then, thanks for reading…
A pastor in Toronto writes…
“I pray for the day when transvestites [and other gay people] can walk through our church doors and be greeted with genuinely warm smiles and Christian love. But before that day is likely to happen, they will need a Christian friend whom they have grown to trust; a person they know would never invite them to a place where they are going to be hurt or embarrassed publicly; a place where everyone is on level ground before the cross of Christ because all are sinners; a place where no one person’s sin is made out to be more repugnant than another’s; a place where all sinners can sit under the uncompromised preaching of holy Scripture and hear of the world’s only Savior and salvation in his name alone.”
HT: Tim Challies
To the individual who found my blog by searching the phrase: “Can we go too far from the reach of God?”
The answer, my dear friend, is a resounding and definite, “Never.”
…I cried.
Maybe it’s the relatively “late” hour, or maybe it’s just me. Maybe it’s the fact that one of my recurring nightmares involves spilling an entire tray of communion cups filled with purple grape juice in the middle of a church service. Whatever it is, this post at Stuff Christians Like really made me laugh. And Prince laughed too.
Here’s the part where I laughed really, really hard…
Rule 4: Break bread, not your concentration.
Chances are the bread or wafer will not be uniform in size. You might be looking at a plate full of wafers broken up into a variety of shapes and girths, or an actual loaf of bread will land in your lap. Do you put the tray down so you can use both bare hands on the loaf? Do you keep the tray in one hand and try to form some kind of eagle claw that can rip a chunk of bread out even though you’re not stabilizing the loaf? How much bread is too much bread? How big a wafer should you choose? Deep breaths, deep breaths. We’re going to get through this together.
If you’re feeling kind of beaten down and discouraged today, I want to encourage you to read some of the comments from the “Introspection and Christ’s Perfection” post a few days ago. Wow. There’s really good stuff there. Thanks, ladies!!! 
I just checked my blog stats, and I came across one of the most amusing searches yet, resulting in the discovery of my blog. I ask you, how on earth would someone find my blog from searching for…
“Men in pigtails”…..?????
Paul Miller, the author of one of my favorite books, and the son of Rose Marie and Jack Miller, just published a brand-new book on the topic of prayer: “A Praying Life.” And Westminster Bookstore is selling it at 65% off until 5PM (eastern) Sat., April 25th. That means that you can buy the book for…$5.25!!!!
I just placed my order…go check it out!
One of my “reference books for life” is How People Change by Paul Tripp and Tim Lane. I was skimming through it last night and came across this wonderful little poem that is now stuck to my bathroom mirror:
Each morning that greets me is full of hope
Not because I am successful at what I am doing,
Or because the people near me appreciate me,
Or because circumstances are easy,
But because God is, and He is my Father.
To look at the morning any other way
Is to believe a lie.
To live in hope is to live in truth;
To live in truth is to bring Him glory;
To bring God glory in my daily living
Is the highest form of worship.
