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eonnaday
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Interests: loving as i have been loved by my Creator, david, sienna, evelyn, learning new things (especially about all of the above) <3
Expertise: i am an expert at trying to be an expert at something
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AIM:  eonnaday
Member Since:
6/21/2004
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| RICHNESS
"Our Lord Jesus Christ became poor for our sakes not as an example, but to give us the unerring secret of His religion. Proffessional Christianity is a religion of possessions that are devoted to God; the religion of Jesus Christ is a religion of personal relationship to God, and has nothing whatever to do with possessions.
The disciple is not rich in possessions, but in personal identity.
Voluntary poverty was the marked condition of Jesus (Luke 9:58), and the poverty of God's children in all ages is a significant thing. Today we are ashamed and afraid to be poor. The reason we hear so little about the inner spiritual side of external poverty is that few of us are in the place of Jesus, or of Paul.
The scare of poverty will knock the spiritual backbone out of us unless we have the relationship that holds. The attitude of our Lord's life was that He was disconnected with everything to do with things that chain people down to this world; consequently, He could go wherever His Father wanted Him to."
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I know I always seem to be quoting Oswald, I'm reading the book below for my quiet time, and while there are other things that I read that penetrate deeply...this whole section I'm on right now in Luke, and Joshua is so very, very rich to me right now.
Thanks for the book Grandma. :)
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| my plans to upload some photos, order prints and generally get caught-up in the photo dept. were thwarted today....
however
i did have a moment of revelation
under the category of: things to make you go hmmmm.....
garrison and rainn
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| out of the mouth of babes...
me: "sienna, today we are going to spend some time cleaning the house before we do anything else - you and evelyn can play in your rooms while i run around and clean the bathrooms and stuff."
sienna: (thinking it over for a moment) "who's coming over?"
i could say all of this qualifying stuff about how i really DO like a tidy house etc., how we were gone all weekend at the lake house...yadda yadda yadda...
bottomline - the truth twinges just a bit this morning!
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| frus-TRATED
it's rainy and chilly outside today
and i am currently plagued with a severe case of the i-just-want-to-do-cozy-things
which means that i keep getting "inspired" to write, read, cook, design...what-have-you
all the to severe detriment of the things-every-sane-woman-should-do-whilst-her-children-sleep
the good news?
i did luxuriate in my time in the Word today
there was a very apres peau passage on laziness however
it kind of took hot-air out of my sails
good thing too.
bla bla bla - this feels like a day in which to do substantial things and i:
1. can't decide what is substantial in the face of the abstract dilemma on (my) life and meaning
2. am sitting here at my computer wishing i was doing something else
thus....
F R U S T R A T E D
seriously? who complains about this kind of stuff? me.
little (thinking-i'm-so-interesting) me.
well, this paints a lovely picture.
(sense the tone)
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