I have a hard time naming these posts...

Ugh - I just get random materials to post now, but I can't get a good summarizing title... :P


[My comments in small purple print.]

Winston Churchill said:
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

[I really need to work on my perseverance... always.] 

Jim Elliot said:
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

[I still have to think twice before I can understand that quote.] 

Excerpt from Do Hard Things - 
Alex and Brett Harris wrote:
A Navajo India tradition says that your conscience is like a small triangle inside your heart .  When you know something is wrong, it turns and pricks the flesh of your heart with one of its corners.  But when you harden your heart and ignore your conscience, it keeps turning, wearing down its corners in effort to get your attention.  Eventually, the triangle gets so worn down that it becomes smooth and circular, spinning around and around in your heart but to no use.  You can't even feel it anymore.

[This is scary in a way.  You won't even know how dull your conscience has become!  And how can you make the "triangle" sharp again?] 

Excerpt from Purpose Driven Life - 
Rick Warren wrote:
Paul said, "I die daily." There is a moment of surrender, the practice of surrender, which a moment-by-moment and lifelong. The problem with a living sacrifice is that it can crawl off the altar.  So you may have to resurrender your life 50 times a day.

[This one is helps me to understand why it's a "living" sacrifice.] 

9 ways (or types of people) to draw near to God [Sacred Pathways] -
Gary Thomas wrote:

1. Naturalists
2. Sensates
3. Traditionalists
4. Ascetics
5. Activists
6. Caregivers
7. Enthusiasts
8. Contemplatives
9. Intellectuals

[Which one(s) are you? :D]

Heart of Worship [song]
By Matt Redman
I'll bring You more than a song
For a song in itself
Is not what You have required
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
You're looking into my heart


Random: I got my Bible Bee materials in the mail today! WOOHOO!! :D  It's just, I've realized how much I have to memorize, and it wasn't a good idea to do it this year while I'm working on the Psalm 119 project :P .

Oh wow - that was a looooong post. :s