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I think God is like a kaleidoscope. God is unchanging, but we’re standing on the image we see. One day we wake up and find that God has shifted the image. Everything looks different. The world looks different. The world seems new. The trick is learning how to recognize that all the old colors are still there. It’s just the patterns that have changed.
Eileen (Tables In the Wilderness by Preston Yancey)
We are confronted every day with the sights and sounds of a world in distress- our world. These things should assault our eyes and ears. Instead, they have become familiar backgrounds and ambient noises of our daily lives. They have become so “normal” that we simply no longer hear and no longer see. The result? We no longer pay attention.
-Paul David Tripp
The world we live in is a very interesting place. We encounter people across every part of the spectrum. We “try” to impact those around us. However, in this time, even that rarely happens. We tend to turn a blind eye to what is going on around us.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
-C.S. Lewis
What is the one thing that pretty much all of us search for in this world? Peace & Happiness. It’s all we truly ask of God. We want to know what to do next so that we are happy and filled with peace. We want out of a situation so we can be filled with happiness and have peace in the situation. But, do we ever just seek God for God?
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at the things in life that don’t really matter
-Francis Chan
As I have been going through this year, this quote has stuck with me. I am trying to find what matters in my life. So, what does truly matter? This is a mind boggling question when truly pondered. It is something that many spend their whole lives trying to decipher.
