November 27-30, 2020

"As long as you know God is for you, it doesn't matter who is against you." Romans 8:31

Birthday lights I bought in March are now up and on :)

"Consider the thoughts you will need to... 

"Dwell on to cultivate settled conditions to love, Joy, and peace." p. 98 Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice: Experiments in Spiritual Transformation

"Eternal life is the quality of God's life." Dallas Willard Healing the Heart part 1B

"...Favorable year of the Lord" ~ Isaiah 61:2

"How Our Hearts and Lives Are Broken & the Promise of Healing" listen here

 "Joy is natural in the presence of God, whose deepest essence is love. Joy is a pervasive sense of well-being that is deeper and broader than any pleasure. It is a basic element of inner transformation into Christlikeness and the outer life that flows from it." p. 93 Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice: Experiments in Spiritual Transformation by Dallas Willard and Jan Johnson

Kainos: the Greek word for “new” is at the heart of  "All Things New: Heaven, Earth, and the Restoration of Everything You Love" by John Eldredge 

"Master that moment when it does arrive...

Nuture

Offline connections

Palingenesia is a concept of rebirth or re-creation, used in various contexts in philosophy, theology, politics, and biology. Its meaning stems from Greek palin, meaning 'again', and genesis, meaning 'birth'. 

Quality of time

Restoration of all things. "Renewal of all things is meant to be your first hope in the way that God is your First Love." ~ John Eldredge  All Things New

Seasons summer flowers enveloped me.. in summer lushness." p. 48 All Things New by John Eldredge

"...The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight... every time we think we have measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we're reminded that that capacity may well be limitless...This is a time for American heroes. We will do what is hard. We will achieve what is great. This is a time for American heroes and we reach for the stars. God bless their memory. God bless you. And God bless the 

United States of America."

“We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,” ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭6:19‬ ‭

EXpectation

Yakhal: " to wait for"‬ 

They will enter Zion with singing. Isaiah 35:10 and 51:11

Inspiration Nov 21 thru 25, 2020 What I am reading, seeing, hearing...

“... And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days...” ~ William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Because 'reasons'!" ~ one of my most favorite Being during a particular difficult time

Censured: expressed severe disapproval of (lies in this case) season 3 episode: 12 West Wing 

"Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours." {Martin Luther qtd. God} qtd. p. 93 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's, The Cost of Discipleship Cost of Discipleship

"Everything"  by Lauren Daigle also...

 Ensorcelled: Enchanted; fascinated. The West Wing Josh re: Amy 

Foundation Leaders, It's Time to Shrink the 

Gap Between Words and Deeds

Hebrews 10:36-37 "For years have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come  will come, and will not tarry."

"I will listen and believe the voice of truth / Oh what I would do to have / The kind of strength it takes to stand before a giant / With just a sling and a stone / Surrounded by the sound of a thousand warriors / Shaking in their armor / Wishing they'd have had the strength to stand... From on top of them lookin' down / I will soar with the wings of eagles / When I stop and listen to the sound of Jesus / Singing over me / I will choose to listen and believe the voice of truth." Songwriters: Steven Curtis Chapman / Mark Hall

"I don't think it's a good idea to be casual about the truth" ~ Sam Seaborn West Wing  "H. Con 172"

"Just Give Me a Reason" by P!nk (listen here)

"Keep me in perfect peace as my mind is stayed on thee, because I trust in thee." Isaiah 26:3

LeAnn Rimes - The Gift Of Your Love (Audio)

Mark 10:21 "And Jesus, beholding him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have, give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow me."

"...Nullifies our arrogant presumption that we should get our way. With love, pride and fear fade." p. 91 Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice: Experiments in Spiritual Transformation

 p. 70 The Cost of Discipleship Cost of Discipleship 

Obfuscate: bewilder  ~ The West Wing Season 3 Episode 11

Quiet time : Chapter 31 Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice by Dallas Willard and Jan Johnson

"His is the only Redemptive efficacy" p. 92 The Cost of Discipleship (the best and most effective way for humanity to be saved from sin is through Jesus' suffering, crucifixion, Resurrection and ascension.)

"So few grains of happiness / measured against all the dark / and still the scales balance / The world asks of us / only the strength we have and we give it /Then it asks more, and we give it." from “The Weighing” by Jane Hirshfield

"Truth be Told" by Matthew West   

"Under His yoke we are certain of his nearness and communion.  It is He whom the disciple finds as he lifts up his cross." p. 93

Voice of Truth by Casting Crowns listen here

West Wing S3, E9: 2001 “The public will not forgive a President who withheld information that could have helped them or saved lives. Second, in a crisis, people need to feel like soldiers, not victims. Third, information breeds confidence, silence breeds fear” 19 years later. Same.

eXegesis : critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially of scripture. p. 84

"Zerubbabel— planted in Babylon— the great-times-eleven grandfather of Jesus! The Lord grew something beautiful from what was planted during a difficult season. And He still does that today!" source

My Heart by Corina Luyken

Across the splendid spare verses, against the deliberate creative limitation of a greyscale-and-yellow color palette, a sweeping richness of emotional hues unfolds."  

BrainPickings article

Corianna Luyken

"Defied myriad labels too small to hold its pulses..."  source: BrainPickings article

"Emotional Intelligence Primer in the Form of an Uncommonly Tender Illustrated Poem About Our Capacity for Love"

"From moments of great joy and exuberance to necessary times of quiet contemplation..."

Grow 

“How is your Heart?”  I recently asked a friend going through a trying period of overwork and romantic tumult, circling the event horizon of burnout while trying to bring a colossal labor of love to life. His answer, beautiful and Heartbreaking, came swiftly, unreservedly, the way words leave children’s lips simple, sincere, and poetic, before adulthood has learned to complicate them out of the poetry and the sincerity with considerations of reason and self-consciousness: “My Heart is too busy to be a Heart,” he replied..." source: BrainPickings article

"...It’s a whisper that can barely be heard... I get to decide..." 

Joy and solace in this labor of love

“Knowledge of each other, not of the flesh but through the flesh, Knowledge of self, the real him, the real her, in extremis, the mask slipped from the face.” ~ Tom Stoppard

"....Laid lovers and empires at its altar — " source: BrainPickings article about 

My Heart by Corianna Luyken

 

Newest publication Nothing in Common

"Ode to love and self-acceptance" ~ intro on flap dust cover :) I rec'd my copy. yay!

Public Library of New London "find" : Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group 2019

Question: "How does the human heart — that ancient beast, whose...

"...Roars and purrs have inspired sonnets and ballads and wars..." source: BrainPickings article

"Some days it is tiny, but tiny can grow… and grow… and grow."

"...Tessellated capacities of the heart...love as a practice rather than a state... how it can frustrate us, brighten us, frighten us, and ultimately expand us."

"...Unbusy itself from self-consciousness and learn to be a heart ... and Ultimately expand us"

Visionary: someone who imagines with wisdom what the future can be 

"With lyrical text and breathtaking art, My Heart empowers all readers to listen to the guide Within in this ode to love and self-acceptance." source 

eXceptional! This post is my review :)

"Your heart is your guide."

"recogniZing its many manifestations" from review @ www.corinnaluyken.com