Sunday, January 17, 2010

Love never fails you



Love is not proud
Love does not boast
Love, after all, matters the most

Love does not run
Love does not hide
Love does not keep locked inside

Love is the river that flows through
Love never fails you

Love will sustain
Love will provide
Love will not cease at the end of time

Love will protect
Love always hopes
Love still believes when you don't

Love is the arms that are holding you
Love never fails you

Love is right here
Love is alive
Love is The Way, The Truth, The Life
Love never fails you

{Love Never Fails You, Brandon Heath}


Friday, January 15, 2010

pressed but not crushed

Two dear friends, Ben and Katie Kilpatrick, are currently serving in Haiti.

 
Please read their blog and pray for them.
Pray for restoration, healing, and the fullness of God's peace over the entire nation of Haiti. 


My heart is heavy, saddened, humbled and confused- 
but not without Hope.
"We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies."
2nd Corinthians 4:8-10
"Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory He will reveal to us later."
Romans 8:18

"Jesus didn’t die to save us from suffering - He died to teach us how to suffer."
Mev Puleo
{via Katie
"If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together." 
Lilla Watson, Aboriginal elder
{via Katie}