“It is such a wonderful statement, to use this time, the brink of a new year, as an occasion to find a renewal of one’s self, to find some refreshed motivation, to create this empowered and improved outlook just because a new year dawns. But why not try this as a new day unfolds itself to our face? Why wait for a new year for a “new you”? Just as God bestows new mercies on us everyday, and as His connection with us grows daily, we would hope; partake in, not yearly resolutions, for those wane over time, but in daily declarations that may act to resolve commonplace, everyday issues to grant maturity, progress, and change in our very lives. My word for you today is newness anxiously awaits your call everyday…and change is right behind him.”
Just a Thought of Mine
December312010
November132010
“…why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardobe? The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men, and new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
July252010
I Just Wanna Live
I want the fullest out of my college experience, I think I’ve been held back from soo much by my family and other foolishness.
I just wanna live.
Break free from the same old same old.
I have two weeks…to life, on my own, with new responsibilities and new experiences that can’t be offered where I am now.
I’m excited as hell.
July222010
This reminds me of Ezekiel 37, where then prophet looked over a valley of dry bones and God asked if these bones could live. I say that God, in His omniscience, clearly knew the answer of the ordeal! He knew that life could be brought out from HIS power! But God wants us to SPEAK OUT His authority over the circumstance! Your family, your job, and the demons that try to pull death over you need to be spoken to! God fill your House! Give vivacity to the dying, waning factions of our being! Hallelujah!
May142010
Thought of the Day: Stepping Into Newness
This is more for me than anything else, somewhat cathartic here, you are invited to read though. :D
Today I presented my senior memoir in World Lit, and I recognize that my high school life was kind of boring. Outside of school fine arts and my church, I didn’t go to a lot of places, didn’t experience anything really new, I stayed single, I feel (now) held back. I see a lot of other people’s lives before me and I hate to sound envious, but I wish I would have been more outgoing.
I am making a personal goal for myself, I gotta become more social in college. Many would consider me anti-social now, I don’t hang with a lot of people, I am talkative and people know of me, but I don’t really have that many friends, especially not in my class. I want to join more clubs, gain friends, maybe even get a girlfriend, and just live. I have to bust out of this small hole I put myself in sometimes, I always talk about community, yet I don’t fully exercise those concepts? That is hypocritical.
I’m done with the old, high school bores me now, I seek newness. I will always remember Ezekiel 37 in the Bible, it was the first reading I did at my church. But it talks about Ezekiel, this amazing prophet in the Old Testament, who viewed this valley of dry bones, and God, being in His spirit, asked the prophet if the bones could live. Ezekiel, ” God, you know. “
God questioned him multiple time the same, and until Ezekiel spoke life over the bones, nothing happened. But when Ezekiel spoke life to the bones, they rose up with flesh. This “life” God allows us to speak can be referred to as a fresh wind. God gives you a breath of fresh air so you can go on. I see so many dry places of my life, and I am asking God to move in, become a fresh wind over my life, and bring about newness.
May122010
This song really reminds me of the past couple years of my life. I’ve been brought to completely new experiences and thus challenged to come upon higher planes of myself and my ministry. I truly appreciate God and His Will for me to giving me the strength to make it through, I am dependent on Him that I will make it through everything else I must press through. Thought of the Day on this topic coming soon.
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