Walking the Passage: I lost a life I couldn't keep and I live a life lost forever hidden in You

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

I lost a life I couldn't keep and I live a life lost forever hidden in You

It is not that the landscapes of life are without their curious twists and turns.. It is that I am intimate with the one who makes them straight....

I have learned that the twists and turns that He does not make straight are twists and turns I need to journey through .... In so learning I have seen that trusting Him through everything is the best action that I could ever take... Watching Him watching me take His hand and journey through whatever the terrain may be says this....

I don't even notice the terrain any more....I don't see that is the valley of the shadow of death... Or if it is truly the road to the cross and death itself.... I don't see if it is a mountain top or a green pasture filled with plenty .... I don't see any of that any more because all I see is Your gaze... Your beautiful, amazing, strengthening gaze and Your love that lives within it...

We walk ... That's what we do... We walk together here until we walk together there and we journey and we walk... Because You live and because You gaze and because You hold my hand I have been lost ... I lost a life I couldn't keep and I live a life lost forever hidden in You

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One of my Favorite Narnian Quotes...

“One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world that makes you real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the Overland.

A Brilliant Quote from Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking

so that others won't feel unsure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in every one.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.