freedom

I just looked at my post from yesterday, and it looks like something that would previously have seriously freaked me out if I read it. Maybe that's a good thing!

One thing that has been huge in my life the past few days is the freedom we have in Jesus. I always knew that He could set us free from sin, but what about all the other things He frees us from? I rarely heard it talked about - or maybe I wasn't listening.

So many things keep us in bondage, like fear or doubt. Jesus can free us from that, He can free us from the expectations of others and from our conventions. As for how, I don't really understand it. But I know it's the best thing ever.

Here's my new theme verse:

Galatians 5:1
For freedom Christ has made us free; stand firm, therefore and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

It is both a gift and a choice.

Joy

I just returned from a week in the mountains, a week of prayer and fellowship and study and communion.

I always wondered what it was like for those who became fully abandoned to Jesus, so much so that they appear completely abnormal, weird, freakish to those outside. And yet we other Christians desire what they have.

I expected it to be difficult, I was sure it would be powerful.

What I wasn't ready for was the Love, overpowering and strong. Trust comes with struggle, and pain, and giving up. But it comes with Love.

Then Joy hits you, so strong and sudden. After the hurt, after the brokeness, is Joy that is complete. No words could do this justice. Even the dancing that broke from me for the first time ever couldn't fully show the glory and power that is God.

Only You, Jesus, could do this for me. Only You.

Sometimes the Answer is so Simple

Every had that feeling that something is wrong, and it turns out to be a marvously simple thing?

Like you're hungry?

I love that! This is like that.

Love it!

Woosh

I just found this really cool site about kites.

I live in a place with not many trees and a lot of wind . . .

Starting to think this looks like a lot of fun!!!

Life

Well, in the past couple days I've:

-recorded about eight "events" on my heart monitor

-started to hate having a monitor around my neck :)

-went swimming

-played on a "slip-and-slide" with my little siblings

-started to teach my younger sister to drive

Not a bad life, eh?

Lub-Dub

That's the normal heart sound. Lub-Dub. Crisp, regular, and strong. 60 to 100 beats per minute.

Amazing, actually that most of our hearts function for so long without difficulty. They do an incredible amount of work, and never rest. They should be:

Lub-Dub. Lub-Dub. Lub-Dub.

But mine keeps doing this (without purpose, reason, or written notice)

lubdublubdublubdublubdub . . .

Irregular, 120 to 180 beats per minute, and not so strong. And there I am - a little dizzy, out of breath, and sometimes a little scared.

So, now I'm wearing a little box and sticky electrodes to try to capture these brief episode when my heart goes a bit balistic. I'm hoping it'll work, and most of all that it will be easy to fix.

Pretty

I just discovered a realy cool photo blog. It's called Apparently Nothing, but it's really something (forgive the pun - couldn't help it)

Just click on the pictures.