Hope

hope: /hoʊp/ [hohp] – noun: to believe, desire, or trust

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

You & Me

I need to practice obedience.
And
I need to practice patience.
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I hate the feeling of confusion, especially when I feel it about every aspect of my life. It makes living difficult, and it makes being myself difficult.
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[I loved you more then you'll ever know]
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I know who I want to be, and how I want to be, but I don't know how to be who I want to be. The confusion stirs up these weird and awkward feelings and it changes my thought process so that I'm not thinking clearly. When I sit and concentrate on God, it starts to make sense and I can deal with it, but during the confusion, it's hard to remember God and to think about thinking about Him. It's hard to stop being confused and focus. The feelings take over and that weird pain feeling comes back and messes up all normality in my head.
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Hanging onto things from the past is a bad idea, because life moves forward, not backwards. What has happened already can't happen again. Those moments you waited for are over and the moments you are now waiting for, will be over soon. I hang onto strange things from the past, certain people I shouldn't and it confuses me. Times that were great, but that ended horribly, I hang onto the great parts and try to ignore the horrible. That doesn't work though, because the horrible did happen and there's nothing you can do to change it. Well sure, people can change, but life moves forward and now I'm here, and they're there. I'm here. They're there. How did we get here?
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[All I know is it's another day now]
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I'm so glad that amongst all the change and the confusion in my life, God is and will always be constant. Whenever I need a dose of reality, I can just call on Him and he'll put it into perspective for me. I just need to learn to call on Him more often.

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His Plan For Me

  • Get In To the Word and Deep In Prayer
  • Prayer Journal - To see God's amazing power through Prayer
  • Committment Journal - Record my struggles and successes to visually see progress over time
  • Personal Goals - Start doing more of the things that make me happy and save some "me" time (art, writing, reading, etc.)
  • Work - Pleasing to God, to be happy in what I do and offer my abilities whenever I can
  • Tithing and Saving - Respecting my money and using it appropriately
  • Education - Study God's word and begin thinking more about my future
  • Touch Cleansing - Relationships (family, friends, dating, God, etc.)
  • Taste Cleansing - What I eat and put into my body (food, drink, nutrition, health, etc.)
  • Smell Cleansing - Waking up and smelling the roses, appreciating small things
  • Sound Cleansing - What I listen to and hear (music, language, people, messages, truths, etc.)
  • Visual Cleansing - What I watch and see (movies, television, magazines and media, pictures, people, etc)

God's Amazing Power

In Christ Alone

In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand

In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
'Till on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost it's grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Brought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life's first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
'Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand