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| Lord, let me remember that here I have no continuing city, but only a place of sojourn and a time of testing. --John Bailey
Losing Dad has been one of the hardest but most strengthening experiences of my life. A sense of God's ultimacy has pervaded my heart. My sojourn here is supposed to be training and testing: not for comfort or gratification.
That understood, we are being gratified by visits with family and friends during this short time home. It is a privilege to spend time with those whose lives have been blended with ours by our faith and family.
books to recommend:
How the News Makes us Dumb by C. John Sommerville
(The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society)
The thesis of this book: since news is a daily commodity, it becomes manipulated in order to maintain its saleability. Media people are not able to communicate the big picture because they deal in small bites. It would be preferable to read a monthly synopsis (not the inside scoop, designed to leave you hanging for tomorrow's installment.)
"Lost in the tidal wave of information is the ability to discern truly significant news."
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| When traveling through the wilderness, there is a good possibility that God will nto reveal our final destination. He has a number of reasons for this. For one thing, if He did reveal where we were going, it wouldn't be such a walk of faith. Another reason is that the full magnitude of what lies ahead is often too much forus to comprehend. We might get in God's way by thinking too small, or delay the process if we become doubtful. We also might have so many questions that we become paralyzed with fear waiting for the answers.
--S.Omartian
My sojourn here in Quelimane has surely been a wilderness. A lush, tropical one, full of malaria and poverty, but a wilderness all the same. True, it is valuable that we don't know what lies ahead, but I can't help thinking that often if I'd had an inkling, I could have adapted or "brought it off" better. That's when I must remind myself that God is not performance-based, we are. God simply cares that I grow deeper in Him.
With Bell far from us, schooling in Zimbabwe, my trust in Him grows. I must trust her with Him, so I do. She,too, learns trust from her angle.
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| When traveling through the wilderness, there is a good possibility that God will nto reveal our final destination. He has a number of reasons for this. For one thing, if He did reveal where we were going, it wouldn't be such a walk of faith. Another reason is that the full magnitude of what lies ahead is often too much forus to comprehend. We might get in God's way by thinking too small, or delay the process if we become doubtful. We also might have so many questions that we become paralyzed with fear waiting for the answers.
--S.Omartian
My sojourn here in Quelimane has surely been a wilderness. A lush, tropical one, full of malaria and poverty, but a wilderness all the same. True, it is valuable that we don't know what lies ahead, but I can't help thinking that often if I'd had an inkling, I could have adapted or "brought it off" better. That's when I must remind myself that God is not performance-based, we are. God simply cares that I grow deeper in Him.
With Bell far from us, schooling in Zimbabwe, my trust in Him grows. I must trust her with Him, so I do. She,too, learns trust from her angle.
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| Resting in the Lord does not depend on external circumstances at all, but on your relationship to God Himself.
--Oswald Chambers
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| Tomorrow I speak at the International Fellowship in Quelimane. It is an
overwhelming task. Throughout the night (in dreams, no less) my
thoughts keep turning to Chet Bitterman's quotation:
When you are between Gethsemane and the cross
and the torches light the garden,
you need to know who you are,
what you are about
and where your values lie.
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