April 23, 2009
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Day Off
I sure need today as my day off. I’m almost at the point that I want to break things. – not really but it feels good to say. I’m so filled full of excitement & heaviness over this summer. I’ve been trying to calm myself down this past week but haven’t been able to. Today I have to or I’ll self destruct.
Thanks for all the comments on Marriage vr Living Together. It helps me keep the correct perspective when I talk to this generation of young people.
I love listening to Hank Williams – “I saw the Light”. It takes me back to when I was a young boy. I played it on my Mom’s record player. You know the record players that were as big as a small couch.
Comments (6)
Well ~ are you taking today off then????
what is or are you so energized about ? I know you want to plan the summer-won’t that be cool if you were off for the summer like a teacher?
Take a day off then – to re-charge yourself.
I hope you enjoy your day off!! AND Relax
As for your last post?? I know how alot of churches feel about living together before youre married. My moms house was unsafe at the time I moved in with frankie, We werent married, But it was important for my own safety to get out of my moms house. His house was the ONLY place I had to go. ….Even knowing that, our church told us that if we werent married, and still lived together, we would have to find a new church. So 2 weeks later, we got married. …Not exactly the best circumstance to get married… agreed?
Ive always wondered though, Does god consider LIVING TOGETHER sinful? Is it the living together? or the sexual relationship that you could have if you lived together? The having sex before youre married?
Is thy cruse of comfort wasting?
Rise and share it with another,
And through all the years of famine,
It shall serve thee and thy brother:
Love divine will fill thy storehouse,
Or thy handful still renew;
Scanty fare for one will often
Make a royal feast for two.
For the heart grows rich in giving;
All its wealth is living grain;
Seeds (which mildew in the garner)
Scatter’d, fill with gold the plain.
Is thy burden hard and heavy?
Do thy steps drag wearily?
Help to bear thy brother’s burden;
God will bear both it and thee.
Numb and weary on the mountains,
Wouldst thou sleep amidst the snow?
Chafe that frozen form beside thee,
And together both shall glow.
Art thou stricken in life’s battle?
Many wounded round thee moan;
Lavish on their wounds thy balsams,
And that balm shall heal thine own.
Is the heart a well left empty?
None but God its void can fill;
Nothing but a ceaseless fountain
Can its ceaseless longings still.
Is the heart a living power?
Self-entwined its strength sinks low;
It can only live in loving,
And by serving love will grow.
Octavius Winslow
Bath, August 1860
You need a retreat!
First hand, Children’s Pastors are some of the hardest working staff in the church that there is… not counting home life!!
I missed that marriage vs living together post. I’ll have to go back and look at it.