Something Beautiful

So my computer is dead. Not in the tragic sense of deadness like my last computer, but in the deadness of not having a charged battery or power cord to charge said battery. It has been a sort of forced simplification of my life. At first I didn't really appreciate it, but I have come to enjoy it. Anyway. . . I'm at the library because I needed a computer to do some homework on, and I decided to go ahead and post quickly. I was having quiet time this morning and I was reading a couple of verses out of Philippians 4 that really hit me in a new light. They are Philippians 4:11-13. "Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me." I love these verses because they are so encouraging for when one is going t...

I have not blogged lately, and I have no excuses to offer you. I simply have not felt like blogging when I have had the time to sit down and do it, so I haven't. Writing must come from my soul or it doesn't mean anything. I think that is one of the drawbacks of me working in a job where I interact with people all day long, by the end of the day I am spent, and I have nothing left to give or share until I return to the source of life and am replenished by Him. I have had a verse rolling around in my head for the last couple of days from Micah. "He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God." (Micah 6:8) I was thinking over this verse in my quiet time this morning, and I realized that all three of these things have to do with the condition of my heart before God. God always comes back to the heart because that is what is unique about us from all the rest of His creati...