happy 21st birthday my friend! not enough words to express my gratefulness and appreciation for your friendship!
i want to climb half dome
I worked my fingers down to the bone
But, nothing I did could ever atone
Jesus, you paid my debt
By your blood, I have redemption and salvation
Lord you died that I might reap what you have sown
Then you rose that I might be a new creation
I am born again by grace and grace alone
I was in darkness all of my life
I never knew the day from the night
Spirit, you made me see
I swore I knew the way on my own
Head full of rocks, a heart made of stone
Spirit, you moved in me
(Source: dundermifflinscranton, via theloveanswer)
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“Get down Mr. President!”
In a big group of friends, one person would put their finger to their ear (like a secret service agent) and as the rest of the group noticed they would do the same. When there was one person left without their finger to their ear, everyone would scream “GET DOWN MR. PRSIDENT” and tackle them. On pavement, gravel, whatever. There were some injuries.
A game I wanna play.
It is important to understand that fruitfulness and growth are the results of focusing on Christ and desiring to honor Him. When growth and change are our primary goals, we tend to be preoccupied with ourselves instead of with Christ. Am I growing? Am I getting any better? Am I more like Christ today? What am I learning?
This inordinate preoccupation with self-improvement parallels our culture’s self-help and personal enhancement movement in many ways. Personal development is certainly not wrong, but it is misleading—and it can be very disappointing to make it our preeminent goal. If it is our goal at all, it should be secondary. As we grasp the unconditional love, grace, and power of God, then honoring Christ will increasingly be our consuming passion. God wants us to have a healthy self-awareness and to periodically analyze our lives, but He does not want us to be preoccupied with ourselves. The only One worthy of our preoccupation is Christ, our sovereign Lord, who told the Apostle Paul, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.’ (2 Corinthians 12:9)
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John Mayer - Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967
