November 20, 2008

thursday mantra

mantra: a commonly REPEATED word or phrase

i know i'm supposed to be on blog hiatus, but i needed this reminder today ...

Psalm 121
I lift up my eyes to the hills—

where does my help come from?

My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.

He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber;
indeed, he who watches over Israel

will neither slumber nor sleep.

The LORD watches over you—
the LORD is your shade at your right hand;
the sun will not harm you by day,

nor the moon by night.

The LORD will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;
the LORD will watch over your coming and going

both now and forevermore.


(bring the rain - mercyme ... odd venue, rad song)

November 13, 2008

i'm fifty!

(and i like to kick and bend and stretch ... sorry, couldn't resist.)

so, it's quite obvious that i don't do a great deal of blogging on this piece. i love to write, but i'm not real big on writing about myself just to hear myself ... err, type. under the radar, that's my motto. with the upcoming holidays, physically preparing for my trip, preparing my co-workers and temp for my absence (AHH!), and making time to visit with my friends and family, i probably won't be doing much around here until i actually leave. besides, the intention of this blah is to use while i am in uganda, which i promise i will. mom.

tomorrow is somewhat of a mile marker ... i leave for africa in fifty days. yeah, fifty. what a small number when looking at it as the time between now and the biggest experience of my life thus. i have said all along that this process of preparing for rafiki as had quite an effect on me already. there's an unrecognizable boldness i've discovered that i think is going to be a heavily-relied on tool in my near future. and if for some strange reason, i never actually make it to africa, i am grateful to God for the remodel already taking place in my heart and in my mind. afterall, me going to africa is not really about "me going to africa" .......

it's amazing what can happen when God's timing and our earthly timing intersect ... a kairos moment, if you will.


i am impressed by the words of
Nate Saint:

if God would grant us the wisdom, the word sacrifice would disappear from our lips and thoughts; we would hate the things that seem now so dear to us; our lives would suddenly be too short; we would despise time-robbing distractions and charge the enemy with all our energies in the name of Christ.