What happens when the weekend comes and it rains ice and sleet from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon? Well, church is canceled and other than reading several books (literally), running 18 miles in the bitter cold (fun!), going to the movies, and catching up on sleep, you really can't wait for Monday morning to go back to work to get out of the house!
Favorite Quotes of the Weekend:
[Really challenging words from Gene Edwards, "Letters to a Devastated Christian: Healing for the Brokenhearted"]
"...One of the foundations of human survival is to understand this simple point: 'It is not what men do to you but how you react to what men do to you that determines how you will survive and live upon this planet.'...You have but one person in this world to indict for any attitudes of bitterness, cynicism, hurt or pain. That person is yourself and it lies within your jurisdiction, and yours alone, to decide whether or not you wish to continue the patterns that are beginning to be set in your life, or whether you wish to break from them and head for the sunlit meadows of higher ground."
[“Through Gates of Splendor” by Elisabeth Elliot]
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” – Jim Elliot
“As we have a high old time this Christmas, may we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as they hurtle headlong into the Christless night without ever a chance. May we be moved with compassion as our Lord was. May we shed tears of repentance for these we have failed to bring out of darkness. Beyond the smiling scenes of Bethlehem may we see the crushing agony of Golgotha. May God give us a new vision of His will concerning the lost and our responsibility.”
“Lord, God, speak to my own heart and give me to know Thy Holy will and the joy of walking in it. Amen.”
– Nate Saint, December 18, 1955
“God is God. If He is God, He is worthy of my worship and my service. I will find rest nowhere but in His will, and that will is infinitely, immeasurably, unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to.”
“We are not always sure where the horizon is. We would not know which end is up were it not for the shimmering pathway of light falling on the white sea. The One who laid earth’s foundations and settled its dimensions knows where the lines are drawn. He gives all the light we need for trust and for obedience.”
– Elisabeth Elliot
Revelation 5:9 NLT
And they sang a new song with these words: “You are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals and open it. For you were slaughtered, and your blood has ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation."
