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February 09, 2005
The Word of God...
Okay, so I really was encouraged by this passage the other night. I don't so much have anything to add to it, other than for me it was exactly what I needed to hear when I needed to hear it. Bear with me... it's long, but it's God's Word and not mine, so you should read it.
Zechariah 9 & 10
"Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the war-horses from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be broken. He will proclaim peace to the nations.
His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth. As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit.
Return to your fortress, O prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you. I will bend Judah as I bend my bow and fill it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and make you like a warrior's sword.
Then the LORD will appear over them; his arrow will flash like lightning. The Sovereign LORD will sound the trumpet; he will march in the storms of the south, and the LORD Almighty will shield them. They will destroy and overcome with slingstones. They will drink and roar as with wine; they will be full like a bowl used for sprinkling the corners of the altar. The LORD their God will save them on that day as the flock of his people. They will sparkle in his land like jewels in a crown. How attractive and beautiful they will be! Grain will make the young men thrive, and new wine the young women.
Ask the LORD for rain in the springtime; it is the LORD who makes the storm clouds. He gives showers of rain to men, and plants of the field to everyone. The idols speak deceit, diviners see visions that lie; they tell dreams that are false, they give comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep oppressed for lack of a shepherd. "My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD Almighty will care for his flock, the house of Judah, and make them like a proud horse in battle. From Judah will come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler. Together they will be like mighty men trampling the muddy streets in battle. Because the LORD is with them, they will fight and overthrow the horsemen.
"I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them. They will be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the LORD their God and I will answer them. The Ephraimites will become like mighty men, and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their children will see it and be joyful; their hearts will rejoice in the LORD. I will signal for them and gather them in. Surely I will redeem them; they will be as numerous as before.
Though I scatter them among the peoples, yet in distant lands they will remember me. They and their children will survive, and they will return. I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon, and there will not be room enough for them. They will pass through the sea of trouble; the surging sea will be subdued and all the depths of the Nile will dry up. Assyria's pride will be brought down and Egypt's scepter will pass away. I will strengthen them in the LORD and in his name they will walk," declares the LORD .
Posted by Angelina at 10:43 PM | Comments (0)
February 07, 2005
Why I want to be a grown up... by me
This post is entitled, "Why I want to be a grown up... by me" and in it I will atempt to explain what I mean when I say that I want to be a grown up. I think, though, that I might already sort of be one....
No, but seriously. In the past two months especially I have found that I like the idea of settling into life. I like the fact that I have been out of high school for six years, and I am looking forward to the day when I have a real job in my 'career' and I can have a somewhat reasonable expectation about what I'm going to be doing in three to five years.
Now I know that I will only know so much as God clues me in on as far as what I'm really going to be doing in three to five years at any time, but you get the point I hope.
I like to go to bed early, and get up early. I enjoy the time I get in the morning before the rest of the world wakes up, and I know that someday when I'm not crazy busy and trying to do college ministry I'm going to like it even more because I won't HAVE to stay up late.
No, I don't know. I am starting to feel more settled about life, and being out in the world 'on my own.' I kind of like the person I am becoming, and I think that in about fifteen years I'll be even better, and I kind of like that too.
I don't know. I don't know how to explain what I mean by all of this really, but I think there must be some mental and life shift that happens in the mid-twenties and I'm not so much afraid of it... I actually think it's kind of liberating.
Posted by Angelina at 07:50 PM | Comments (1)
February 06, 2005
Thoughts worth posting about...
I'm going to be a little bit real here for a moment, after which I expect at least a moderate amount of ridicule. But, let's be honest with ourselves, I don't so much care.
So, I woke up from my Sunday afternoon nap today after the beginning of the Borseth Super Bowl party. I come upstairs, hear a few kids playing, and three couples hanging out around the TV in the living room.
I do my duty and find someone to come pick me up and take me to my Friley team party on Hunt St. It's packed there, 30-40 people, crammed in a little house, with a big TV. I emmerse myself in the game and commercials, but find myself thinking that a quiet gathering with better furniture and some boneless buffalo wings sounded way better for no apparent reason.
Okay, these are not completely off the wall thoughts until I get home, and almost choke when Tim starts talking about how he wished there had been way more people at his party. Now, I find myself wondering just how old I'm getting when even the pastor wants to have a loud and crazy party when I just kinda want to chill.
Who knows. But, I will admit that the past couple months have brought about a change of mind in that I want to be a grown up now.
Posted by Angelina at 10:29 PM | Comments (3)