Wednesday, December 31, 2008

trich and fellowship... with Jesus!!!

a beautiful girl giving the glory to the One who deserves it!



btw, does everyone know that trich is the reason i had a buzz cut when i got baptized 9 years ago? (wish i could scan my baptism pic for y'all, but my scanner has been commandeered by a friend and hasn't returned home yet!!! :P )

... and it's also the reason i have dreads? ie. with dreads you 'keep' all your hair (even what is normally 'shedded' and would normally be found loose in your hairbrush) and it entwines with itself and becomes 'one' (a dreadlock)... which is the opposite of pulling out and 'discarding' one's hair - which to me is actually discarding a little bit of yourself, one hair at a time... so i choose to embrace my whole self (well i try to, anyways!) - instead of 'discarding' myself, if that makes sense - and this is represented by my dreads....

it also goes much further for me, in that it also represents God's healing of me, *all* of me, bringing *wholeness* to my broken life, no part left untouched by His healing hand... and His utter acceptance of me in my entirety.... if He does not see fit to discard of me, with all my fatal flaws... why should i?
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Outcast, Adopted.

THIS BLOG IS IN NEED OF AN OVERHAUL. there are posts from years back i would not be able to post in good conscience now. i plan to overhaul the blog, and either delete or add a disclaimer to those posts. but that is gonna take time....

The Radical Summons: "Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp and bear the reproach He endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come." Hebrews 13:13.

"The Spirit never loosens where the Word binds; the Spirit never justifies where the Word condemns; the Spirit never approves where the Word disapproves; the Spirit never blesses where the Word curses." —Thomas Brooks

‎"God receives none but those who are forsaken, restores health to none but those who are sick, gives sight to none but the blind, and life to none but the dead. He does not give saintliness to any but sinners, nor wisdom to any but fools. In short: He has mercy on none but the wretched and gives grace to none but those who are in disgrace. Therefore no arrogant saint, or just or wise man can be material for God, neither can he do the work of God, but he remains confined within his own work and makes of himself a fictitious, ostensible, false, and deceitful saint, that is, a hypocrite." --Martin Luther (W.A. 1.183ff)

i will not let You go: "Jacob's sense of his total debility and utter defeat is now the secret of his power with his friendly Vanquisher. God can overthrow all the prowess of the self-reliant, but He cannot resist the earnest entreaty of the helpless." --Albert Barnes

i will not let You go: "Jacob's determination did not flow from his strength, it flowed from his weakness." --Charles Leiter