Day of Thoughts, part 2

“Romance is the deepest thing in life, romance is even deeper than reality.”
G.k. Chesterton

Thoughts from a talk on leadership:

• Fear is a backwards motivator
• Pure obedience comes from a love for Jesus
• What are you trying to hide?
• Keep your heart yielded and keep following Him.
• When you understand the way of a leader as being a shepherd then you will be a dynamic leader.
• A shepherd feeds his sheep everyday and only shears once a year.

Andy Stanley Series: That Hideous Thing (jealousy)

• You think God ripped you off.  God could have given you this, God could have done that.
• 1 Cor. 13 You can’t love until you get rid of envy
• 1. Acknowledge this truth and take it to God. I think God owes me. 2. Confess your jealousy to the person if you need to. 3. Celebrate the people you envy and celebrate them out loud.”

Captivating: Healing the Wound

• Now, Jesus said, don’t you think God cares just a little bit more for you than for the birds of the air? “Are you not much more valuable than they?” (Matt. 6:26).  Indeed, you are.  You, dear heart, are the crown of creation, his glorious image bearer.  And he will do everything it takes to rescue you and set your heart free.
• He came to restore the glorious creation that you are.  And then set you free….to be yourself
• Our journey toward healing begins when we repent of those ways, lay them down, let them go. 
• Healing never comes against our will
• We all still need to know and find the answers in God: Do you see me? Am I captivating? Do I have a beauty all my own? Will you heal me? Can you really heal me? Am I really worth it? 

Day of Thoughts

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. ~Anne Lamott

Guarding your heart also means filter what goes in and what comes out:  “She said that she’s protecting the things that are in her heart. “Not everyone gets every story, Annie,” she said in a voice that was mildly condescending with a touch of motherly undertones.”

I love a good hug, but I am very thankful the multiple online mediums to which I can connect and keep in touch while I’m far away.

A good reminder:

“God speaking to me.
This continues to this second.
I don’t have  journals with pages or pens with ink enough to capture everything He is telling me.
I realized that He didn’t start yelling the second I unplugged, but He had been screaming for a long time.  I just had to unplug to hear from Him through Him.  Not rely on hearing Him through great podcasts and great blogs.”