A Story About Mother Theresa

...as told by Brennan Manning in his book Ruthless Trust

"When the brilliant ethicist John Kavanaugh went to work for three months at 'the house of the dying' in Calcutta, he was seeking a clear answer as to how best to spend the rest of his life. On the first morning there he met Mother Teresa. She asked, 'And what can... I do for you?' Kavanaugh asked her to pray for him.
'What do you want me to pray for?' she asked. He voiced the request that he had borne thousands of miles form the United States: 'Pray that I have clarity.' She said firmly, 'No, I will not do that.' When he asked her why, she said, 'Clarity is the last thing you are clinging to and must let go of.' When Kavanaugh commented that she always seemed to ahve the clarity he longed for, she laughed and said, 'I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you trust God.'"Read More

A Conan Doyle Quote

"My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the thing which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable."
-Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity

Deeds vs. McDonnell

Virginia Governor's Race 2009!!!!

Here's my opinion...

I appreciate McDonnell's stance on healthcare.

....more to come later after I have a chance to read more.

(P.S. this is written ONLY because I need it for a Digital Media class)

reminded that sophisticated prayers are not impressive. take away the compromise. restore Your kingdom.

redefine

"When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then You knew my path." -Psalm 142:3


some thoughts I found written in a journal from over a year ago:
Becoming Redefined.
Words that used to define me are not going to fit anymore. Those things of the past are exactly that...the past...not to come with me into what's ahead. This is a journey, and I am in it for the long haul. No jumping ship. No getting in a little lifeboat to head back to shore. No to all of that. It's all or nothing.

So God, I ask that You would redefine me. Redefine me with Your words, with Your thoughts, with Your plans. Teach me how to rest in Your arms, cause that's where I'm dangerous. That's where I'm brilliant. That's where creativity and life flow from. That's where I want to live from and it's the place for which I want to be jealous...

in Your arms.