MY HEART WILL TRUST

There are so many things I don't understand and so many things I find so easy to doubt.  Of all these things the easiest to doubt is myself.  I have such a hard time dealing with things that I make more difficult then they need to be.  If there is anything I have learned to cherish, it is that I have freedom from all this--for Christ's strength becomes perfect in my weakness.  I have learned that trusting God, truly trusting him with everything, is more freeing than anything I have ever experienced.

I give it up, all of it.  I kneel down and offer up all my garbage.

Life is so exciting and wonderfully adventurous.

I am so free.

TOUR DE FORCE

The phrase 'Tour de force' implies an impressive performance or achievement that has been accomplished or managed with great skill.  In French it literally means "feat of strength."

What a great phrase... one that I can only hope will be used to describe how I lived my life.  While some people have their creations of art judged, others their skills as an athlete, my earnest hope is that my performance as a human being whose belief in the motif of love conquering all will be apparent and evident to others as a tour de force.

How will that look?  A man whose life reflects a tour de force will be wise, loving, patient, truth seeking, and live for justice.

WISDOM SETS YOU FREE

If there is anything that I have learned this summer is that life is
full of opportunities to be bound, enslaved, and captured by forces
that seek to sabotage our lives... yet I have been learning that
wisdom sets us free. God's wisdom, which is far superior to the
wisdom of this world, truly sets us free.

God says that those who seek wisdom will be given wisdom abundantly.

Go and rest, and God will teach you how wisdom truly sets you free.
Free from sin, free from lies that Christians still believe today,
free from so many things.

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From now on I will not sit here and censor myself, but rather will
deeply think and consider everything I want to say before I write. I
no longer feel the need to shy away from saying some things while
giving away in others. No more!