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Dim Eyes, Open Heart.
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This is my personal checklist and a work in progress
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind & strength.
Love your neighbour as yourself.
Keep the commandments.
Put on the full spiritual armour of God.
Stay rooted in sound doctrine & scriptures.
Nurture & maintain love, joy...
I know you go through different versions of yourself as you grow up and figure out how you fit in. "You are an amalgamation of the people you spend time with" I heard recently.
I've felt like an observer of life rather than a participant for the longest time. I can see photographs of me at...
Jesus is the way the truth and the life.
There is nothing I can do to earn my salvation that I acknowledge Jesus bought for me on his cross.
If I love him with all my heart, soul, mind and strength not turning away to the left or to the right to find accomplishment in following human rules...
Yesterday was Father's day. It will be a memorable one but not for the right reason.
My uncle lost a battle with cancer he didn't even know he had.
My dad lost his older brother.
My aunt lost her husband and my cousin lost his dad.
How do you smile and say Happy Father's day to that?
Dad...
How many times have I heard the story about the wise man that built his house upon the rock and the fool who built his house upon the sand. As I child I took it literally and thought well obviously it was a stupid idea to build one's house upon the sand and then as I grew up I guess I just never...
Taking the time to really look at yourself honestly and how you behave, destroying yourself to rebuild yourself is probably one of the hardest and most rewarding things you get to do in your life. Not that it's actually you doing it but still being able to witness real changes and subtleties...
Music both playing an instrument and listening to it have been a major part of my life for a very long time, recently I've tried to be more aware of what I am listening to but I find I miss secular music after awhile. These three songs have been going around my head lately, they are all secular...
I've never really sat down and studied the Bible in any great length. Prior to 2015 I think I had only read Genesis from start to finish and maybe Matthew and Jude. For the longest time I was happy to just receive a Bible verse a day via email from WordLive and leave it at that.
Then out of...
My gap year from God lasted much longer than a year. I'm ready now to step away from the world in which I never truly belonged and to give 'me' up to become something so much better in Him. I'm excited and enthusiastic to witness everything.
I've come from a place where suicidal thoughts were...