Is it because I asked?

Thing is, these things just keep coming up. Yes, I asked. What keeps coming up? These concepts:

- Spiritual gifts
- What are my spiritual gifts
- Stretching
- Leave your comfort zone
- Step out
- Be led by the Holy Spirit
- Be led by the Holy Spirit in every (little and big) thing
- Adventure
- "What God has for me"

Ah, but they're just "concepts" and "ideas" and I use parentheticals and "" too much and get too impulsive with blog posts.

:D

Ok. I will go visit some blogs tomorrow and get work done tomorrow and think about it tomorrow, Scarlet. Right now, I've got to go on a gift search.

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One day I'll learn how to properly embed these.

(grab a tissue first if you're a weepy person like me)

Go watch something that will inspire you.

Quick thoughts:

And I have something to complain about?
God be my strength though my weakness!
Help me to learn to be available for You, Lord.
Not pity, not bias, not stereotype but love, encouragement, joy.
"Nothing is impossible for God"
It's not about me.

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TimmyJohn's was nice enough to add me to his neighborhood and so I added him to mine. Good thing, too, else I would have missed out on some wonderful writing.

The Warrior, part 1
The Warrior, part 2

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I'm getting excited (no, not about the sweater, though there is that)! This Thursday, I get to go to our church's women's retreat. I'm hitching a ride with three other gals I know and am looking forward to lots of knitting time (ahem) and getting to know people from church more and taking time to be alone with HIM.

To that end, I'm praying over what to put on my iPod so I have a few hours' worth of studies to go over. I'm figuring out that I'm more of an auditory learner than I presumed I was. Or is that how it goes? Because if I am listening to a study, if I write down what I'm hearing, I usually retain it really well (don't tell but I hardly ever went over my notes in high school or college before tests and I got decent grades). It's not that I'm a particularly wonderful note taker, but there's just something about writing it down that helps to file it in my brain so I can get at it later.

Of course, that only works if I'm really paying attention. Most often lately, half my brain is listening and the other half is wondering what to do next or what grammar lesson we need to work on or how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Ok, maybe not that really but more like "should I buy lace blocking needles" or "when is my order of yarn going to get here" or "what project should I finish first" etc. etc. etc. I'm obsessed. And to think that I've come down a few notches. Oy!

A side note: I've started watching One Night With the King on Netflix. I'm trying to figure out if I know the actor who plays the king because he looks somewhat familiar and it's driving me nuts. But I'm too stubborn/lazy to bother looking it up.

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I have been listening to Elisabeth Elliot speak about the Lord's prayer (in Matthew 6) and she quoted this wonderful anecdote:

A publication asked its readers for their answers to "What is wrong with this world?"

G. K. Chesterton wrote this: "Dear Sirs, I am."

Ouchie, but really so true.

A collection of recorded studies by Elisabeth Elliot can be found at Blueletter Bible. Just click on the Audio/Video link on the left. She's one of the names listed.

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The Church of Oprah Exposed

Ignore the politics, I do because it's not entirely germane to the topic.

The issue here is the false concept of God: "God is a feeling experience, not a faith experience." and the often expressed "How can there only be one way?"

There's no denying that Oprah is responsible for so many good works and for being an influence towards positive change. But it's a little twisted to insist that God has to take on her own idea of who He is. I could believe God is wooden frog I keep on a shelf in my bedroom and convince you of the same, but that doesn't make it true. And everyone who is honest will admit that feelings change. Does God change when my feelings change?

"...I took God out of the box..."

What do we have against boxes? Boxes protect and in this case, we're the ones being protected. Boxes keep things together, too, and that's a good thing.

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