#weightofglory

[rachelmcvt]

The Weight of Glory: Embracing the Calling of the Lord

Spread the lovePhoto from freepik Many of us go through life feeling a deep sense of emptiness, a feeling that something important is missin

Are you ready to step into your divine purpose? "The Weight of Glory" is more than a book, it's a guide to embracing your calling and living life God intended for you. Full of inspiration, wisdom, and encouragement, it helps you navigate challenges, find clarity, and walk boldly in faith. Whether you're searching for direction, hope, or spiritual growth, this read will uplift your heart and ignite your spirit. Don't just dream about your purpose, discover it today!

[dduerksen]

Today’s jam #mishagoetz #weightofglory https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck37_cPv5H1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[a-godman]

For our momentary lightness of affliction works out for us, more and more surpassingly, an eternal weight of glory. 2 Cor. 4:17 #bible #scripture #affliction #weightofglory #glory #workforus more at www.agodman.com https://www.instagram.com/p/CL7usjhBb3d/?igshid=12agzil5e9pq4

[caroshin-blog]

Scattered notes 12/7

Many people are surprised by how strangely disappointing Christmas and Thanksgiving are to them. Home, then, is a powerful but elusive concept The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. Now we wake to find we have been mere spectators. Beauty has smiled, but not to welcome us; her face was turned in our direction, but not to see us. We have not been accepted, welcomed, or taken in. . . . Our life-long nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we feel cut off, to be on the inside of some door which we have always seen from the outside, is no mere neurotic fancy, but the truest index of our real situation. The Bible's sweeping theme of exile and homecoming leads to an understanding... Jesus offers more than individual redemption: he promises hope for the world.

[onwardia]

"I am trying to rip open the inconsolable secret in each one of you—the secret which hurts so much that you take your revenge on it by calling it names like Nostalgia and Romanticism and Adolescence; the secret also which pierces with such sweetness that when, in very intimate conversation, the mention of it becomes imminent, we grow awkward and affect to laugh at ourselves; the secret we cannot hide and cannot tell, though we desire to do both. We cannot tell it because it is a desire for something that has never actually appeared in our experience. We cannot hide it because our experience is constantly suggesting it, and we betray ourselves like lovers at the mention of a name. Our commonest expedient is to call it beauty and behave as if that had settled the matter. 

The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers.

For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

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To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain.  But so it is."

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 -CS

[savtibbs]

Comfort my heart with the weight of glory

From the shade of your hand

To the light of your face

I just want to live in you

You flood me with your grace

[ashleyschulte]

"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit--immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play, but our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriosuly--no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner--no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment."

- CS Lewis, "The Weight of Glory"