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“Underneath most of my besetting sins is despondency. I am less prone to such melancholy when I hammer my body three times a week. The reason could be endorphins. Could be ego. Whichever, it’s cheaper than Prozac or psychotherapy. I’m simply happier. And I sleep better. I have more energy.”

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/physical-exercise-what-i-do-and-why-part-2

All the rivers of earthly joy may be flowing into your heart, but they will never fill it. They may recede, or dry up, or ebb; but if not, still they will never satisfy.... But in Christ there is perennial interest.... We need not go outside of Him for new delights; and to know Him is to possess a secret which makes all things new.

(Meyer);https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/archives/guzik_david/studyguide_ecc/ecc_1.cfm

281 Likes, 3 Comments - Chris Rod (@chrisjrod) on Instagram: “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” NOTE TO SELF.

Sept 22/17: found this money I stored somewhere and forgot about - like a squirrel hoarding nuts.

There are times to do the things I don’t want to get where I am supposed to be.

Deciding today to not let fear be the reason I don’t do something. Deciding to do things that scare me.

…Scripture never mandates that we constantly act upbeat. God wants us to come to Him in truth…the Bible does't whitewash the raw emotions of its writers as they cry out to God in anguish, fear, and frustration when life ceases to make sense.

The Scars That Have Shaped Me, Chapter 8 by Vaneetha Rendall Risner.

Nature is neat. | Community Garden on Ann Street, London. Sept 16 / 17.

Jesus “learned the family trade. He worked hard, cut His hands, stood on tired feet, was cheated by customers, and was lied and gossiped about by His friends and neighbours” (Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Comforts from Romans). Jesus worked like we do now. Jesus worked for years in the trades before He began a full-time teaching ministry. Jesus knows what it is like to long for the Father’s house and yet diligently submit to the work He was given to do. May this sink in and be a balm to our souls, for we are not second-rate Christians or missing out on God’s will by working as we do. His people are everywhere, in all corners of the earth. Hallelujah, what a saviour!

Those of us with scars should wear them like jewels, treasured reminders of what we've endured. It's okay to show our imperfections. It is even courageous.

The Scars That Have Shaped Me, Chapter 1 by Vaneetha Rendall Risner.

...vulnerability is so necessary in communicating a powerful story. But...our testimonies won't really reach - or even change -the life of the reader. Only the word of God can do that.

Joni Eareckson Tada, Foreward to The Scars That Have Shaped Me by Vaneetha Rendall Risner.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Abraham Lincoln

God also breathes life into the sepulchre where our faith lies soldering under decades of living in a world filled with broken promises, unbelief, and disappointments. He speaks, and our trust is resurrected He makes us believe that He loves.

- Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Comforts from Romans

The scars that have shaped me

This touched me, for those who’ve locked their hearts away.

She is frustrated if not resentful toward imperfections in herself, around her, and in the world outside. Her spirit longs for order, fullness, and completion. She sees what is and sees what is not. The Thames river, occasionally beautiful and candescent as it sparkles over rocks in the sunlight, is nonetheless putrid and polluted. It misses the mark of what it could be. Even worse, it is reminiscent of what was, of an earlier time when gentler people walked and fished by its shores, when they bathed and frolicked in its water. She often imagines what the Thames valley was like it in it’s feral state, when the First Nations lived here, and when she does, her spirit longs for the redemption of creation. The prettiest sight on earth inspires nostalgia for what should be. The sunlight filtered through leafy branches does not fill her heart with satisfaction now, it only makes her heart long for liberation, and for home.

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