The First, What do you have?
The Second, What is required of you?
The Second and a half, How does the First compare to the Second?
The Third, What do you love?
Life. Pertaining to Processing One’s Current Condition
2008Dec15 at 1227 (Community, Gatherings, Personal Life, Statements, Thinkables)
Tags: condition, deficit, have, life, love, processing, requirements, surplus
My Lord and I
2008Dec15 at 1220 (Conversations in my Head, Statements)
Tags: truth, love, God, speak, spirit, rest, wisdom, life, confession, together, peace, tear away, come between, hate, consistency, mouth, hand, foot, walk, touch, interferance, create, sustain
You cannot tear my away from my Lord, nor can you come between us; and I will hate the spirit which attempts to do so, because I love my Lord and with perfect consistency he loves me! He is always my truth and shows himself to me. Wherever I am, he is always with me; to guide my foot, my hand, my mouth, and bring true life–which rests in peace–to every place that I walk, every person that I touch and every word that I speak according to his perfect wisdom. Do not interfere with the one to whom I confess my love; because you will not feel my hatred in return, but rather my Lord’s, who creates and sustains life in all things.
In my Defense (The Second)
2008Dec15 at 1206 (Conversations in my Head, Personal Life)
Tags: truth, judgment, patience, God, knowledge, evil, wait on the Lord, ignorance, defense, discernment, right, motives, peace, chaos, questions
If you truly desire to know the truth, then you will be patient with me as I wait on my God, for his knowledge and discernment–which is the right way–but if you have evil motives and have already judged my words, or if you do not care for truth and have chosen ignorance, leave me in peace (take your chaos elsewhere) and question me no further.
In my Defense
2008Dec15 at 1259 (Conversations in my Head, Personal Life)
Tags: understanding, life, belief, defense, systematic explanation, testimony
I do not have a systematic explanation for my understanding, but I do have a life and it is a testimony to all that I have come to believe.
Cast Down From Heaven
2008Dec15 at 1257 (Heart's Land, Personal Life, Thinkables)
Tags: burden, cast down, condition, faith, heaven, humanity, ignorance, saved, weakness, well
Your condition; your ignorance; your humanness; your weakness; your burden; these have saved you (yet Satan was condemned). Your faith will make you well.
After a Debate Between Hypothetical Opinions
2008Dec15 at 1249 (Conversations in my Head, Personal Life)
Tags: understanding, judgment, receive, pride, humility, mercy, debating hypothetical opinions, gift
“But is it easier apply judgment or give mercy? I am trying to make the giving of mercy understandable.”
“Mercy is only a gift to the humble.”
“True, because only the humble will see it as such. All the more, because of this, we should always give mercy, rather than grow prideful in our judgment–no longer allowing the reception of mercy ourselves.”
Trying to Find Truth
2008Dec15 at 1232 (Personal Life)
Tags: enjoy, help, need, processing, truth
I don’t need you. I enjoy you; I enjoy spending time with you, you help me process life and work through situations. But I don’t need you… and you don’t need me.
The Beauty of a Name; having…
2008Dec15 at 1227 (Personal Life, Thinkables)
Tags: beauty, called, have, humility, information, knowledge, labels, true, understanding, useful
…a relationship in which you’re called a name that is true and full of knowledge and understanding, rather than a label which is only spoken in the passing of raw information to aid in giving people what they want–something that people look at and think no further than, ‘Oh, that’s useful.’
I despise labels! Neither do they require humility, nor do justice to knowledge and understanding.
We Are Gathered Together for…?
2008Dec15 at 1218 (Gatherings, Thinkables)
Tags: ambition, bring, desire, fulfillment, gathering, intimacy, knowledge, need, offering, openness, together, want
We gather together now for what we want, to fulfill our ambitions and desires.
No longer do we gather together to simply bring what we have; no longer for the intimacy of offering, the openness of need.
Do we know one another – beyond our wants and what effects them? Do we care to know?
Drop Everything.
2008Dec2 at 1255 (Thinkables)
Tags: belief, bond, burden, Christ, complete, everything, have, hope, love, share
Leave all your burdens behind you.
Enter into this bond only with what you have;
willing to share it for the love in which we place our hope that we believe in.
(Christ; who is everything, and will bring everything to completion.)
