Soma Me:: January 2012

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Katie

http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/since-christ-is-all-katies-story
http://kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com/

I would almost say that I want to be like my sister in Christ Katie when I grow up, but do I? Oh Lord, make me willing. Show me my desires and my fears and my indulgences. Make me unwilling to be anything but what You've called me to be. If Your presence does not go with me, do not bring me up from here--and yet if it does not stay here with me, make me go. Jesus, You are beautiful.

Quotations

"Guide us waking, O Lord, and guard us sleeping; that awake we may watch with Christ, and asleep we may rest in peace." - The Book of Common Prayer

"Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, 'This is the way; walk in it.'" - Isaiah 30:21

"Pilgrims travel light." - Randy Alcorn, The Treasure Principle

"God does not need our disciplines in order to find us. We need discipline in order to bring some structure to our intent to open ourselves to God--alone and together. Our desire and intent is what we bring, and God does the rest." - Ruth Haley Barton, Pursuing God's Will Together

"Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer space where change can take place." - Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out

"If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country--a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them." - Hebrews 11:15-16

"My heart is all of sin; but Jesus lives." - Robert Murray McCheyne

"Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, 'Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,' but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?" - James 2:16-17

"You can never go wrong in loving someone." - Immaculee Ilibagiza