In the posting  my last entry, the one with several devotional quotes from Elisabeth Elliot, I ended up having quite a few problems with it, and as such, with the final posting, I didn't proof-read very well at all.   And so...as some of you might've noticed, the same text was under the first two headings.  That's a mess-up...I don't know how it ( Read more... )

Yes, I realize that I haven't been updating as much as I have in the past...but I'm thinking that will become the norm now.  I certainly still want to keep this blog going... I won't abandon you all and I hope you won't me...but I most probably (i.e. most definitely!) won't be posting as often as before.  And this post won't even my writings anyway ( Read more... )

Two times before this ( here and here), I've quoted Elisabeth Elliot's words, "Heaven is not here, it's there.  If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next."   I first came across that quote back in April and it quickly became one of my favorite.  It's SO true (like most of Elisabeth Elliot's ( Read more... )

The Elisabeth Elliot e-devotional for today was quite interesting and provoked thought...I'll quote it here since I couldn't find a very good permalink for it (sue me if you need to!)...

The Necessity to Cover
by Elisabeth Elliot

"There are things which it is our duty to cover in silence. We are told nowadays that everything ought to be expressed if ( Read more... )

Back around the beginning of the year, I wrote up a post containing the lyrics and musings on one of my favorite songs, "He's Always Been Faithful", by Sara Groves.  Here are the words again...

Morning by morning I wake up to find
The power and comfort of God's hand in mine
Season by season I watch Him amazed
In awe of the mystery of His perfect ways

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I've recently started getting the daily Elisabeth Elliot e-devotional from Back to the Bible and I thought today's was very good as it relates to some stuff I'm going through at the moment.  I think it was taken from her book, A Lamp for My Feet...and since it's short, and I'm giving proper credit, and it's also various place on the Net...I thought ( Read more... )

Over the last month or so, I've had the not-so-enjoyable job of looking into scholarships for going to Bible college this fall.   I've written before (third paragraph in this long post) about how hard it is to find scholarships to apply for when my main focus isn't my degree, so the few that I can apply for are essay question type ones.  For some ( Read more... )

My best friend just shared the following quote with me...she came across it on the the Boundless homepage (but it may be gone from there now...they change the quote every so often!).

"Heaven is not here, it's there.  If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next." ~Elisabeth Elliot

While reading ( Read more... )

I've lately been reading a wonderful book by Elisabeth Elliot (I've yet to read a book by her that's not wonderful!) called The Shaping of a Christian Family...and came across some great quotes...they're not quotes FROM the author (those would be too hard to choose...too many great ones to choose from!), but are quotes from others with which ( Read more... )

"May we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as they hurtle headlong into the Christless night without ever a chance...May we shed tears of repentance for thoses we have failed to bring out of darkness." ~Jim Elliot