My Chains are Gone!
My cast is off! woo hoo! Cast gone! yay! I can type normally again. its still weak but im happy. This is awesome!
Also Joy is amazing. Not the excitement or adrenaline, but the perminant joy that allows you to smile at everything. To look at the grey sky and still say, "this is a good day." Anxiety is a memory even if the joy came as recent as two days ago. God is good.
Oh my friend Danielle posted a really good entry. Here it is:
" LOVE DOES NOT REJOICE IN INIQUITY
Love finds no satisfaction in sin - whether our own sin or the sins or others. To rejoice in iniquity is to turn virtue and truth on their heads. That violates the spirit of Isiah 5:20: "woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"
We live in a culture that glorifies iniquity. Today's popular entertainment and music reflect this, and that means authentic love requires that we stand apart from the world. In other words, there is an all-too-common kind of love that is utterly imcompatible with the true love of God: "If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him" (1 John 2:15).
If you genuinely love someone, you cannot rejoice when that person sins. Still less would you deliberately want to cause a loved one to stumble. Thus, authentic love goes out of its way not to drag the ones we love into sin or temptation.
Often we hear people try to justify a sin like sex out of marriage by using "love" as an excuse; "We just fell in love and couldn't resist." That's not authentic love. Real love does not rejoice in iniquity.
The purity of love is one of the things that makes it the highest of virtues. If you ever imagine that "love" is an excuse for wrongdoing, you need to examine the matter more closely. Real love NEVER delights in evil.
(pg 132-133, The Quest for Character)"
Got to love it. ok bye for now.
JESSIE
Also Joy is amazing. Not the excitement or adrenaline, but the perminant joy that allows you to smile at everything. To look at the grey sky and still say, "this is a good day." Anxiety is a memory even if the joy came as recent as two days ago. God is good.
Oh my friend Danielle posted a really good entry. Here it is:
" LOVE DOES NOT REJOICE IN INIQUITY
Love finds no satisfaction in sin - whether our own sin or the sins or others. To rejoice in iniquity is to turn virtue and truth on their heads. That violates the spirit of Isiah 5:20: "woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"
We live in a culture that glorifies iniquity. Today's popular entertainment and music reflect this, and that means authentic love requires that we stand apart from the world. In other words, there is an all-too-common kind of love that is utterly imcompatible with the true love of God: "If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him" (1 John 2:15).
If you genuinely love someone, you cannot rejoice when that person sins. Still less would you deliberately want to cause a loved one to stumble. Thus, authentic love goes out of its way not to drag the ones we love into sin or temptation.
Often we hear people try to justify a sin like sex out of marriage by using "love" as an excuse; "We just fell in love and couldn't resist." That's not authentic love. Real love does not rejoice in iniquity.
The purity of love is one of the things that makes it the highest of virtues. If you ever imagine that "love" is an excuse for wrongdoing, you need to examine the matter more closely. Real love NEVER delights in evil.
(pg 132-133, The Quest for Character)"
Got to love it. ok bye for now.
JESSIE