The trip to India was a success and I am eager to hear more about their adventures tomorrow. I must simply say how pleased I am that God would allow me to be a part of this church family, and while I wasn't physically in India with them, my heart, prayer and dreams were there with them. I am not certain how, but we are all so intricately connected by the bonds of love and spirit that the truth of it washes over me like a flood.
While studying tonight to teach in the jail tomorrow, I found a quote that so perfectly expressed my view of the difficult times in life that it brought immediate tears. I believe Mr. Spurgeon has induced more spontaneous tears in me than any other dead man!
It is not hard for the Lord to turn night into day. He that sends the clouds can as easily clear the skies. Let us be of good cheer. It is better farther on. Let us sing Hallelujah by anticipation. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
So, I sing.
The Himalayan Mountains
13 comments:
I'll sing with you Mama! It's a good pain, though, isn't it? Knowing that it'll be so much better with all that infection removed . . . . I look forward to the end of our race.
I really enjoyed being near you guys, too. It's good to be part of a little body within the body! I love you!
A
Thanks, sweetie!
Love you, too. I'll pray for you right NOW.
Hope everyone is alright and recovers well.
You're a great person, LP.
It is good to have the India team home again! I have learned alot about myself while they were gone; "the good and the bad and the ugly."
Karen
Oh Karen...
You're not ugly. (but you are bad!)
Ha ha!
You're not alone- seems a lot of people learned their own "inner depths" while the team was gone!
Imran-
Thanks. Nice of you to say so.
It is so true that pain cleanses. I hope the cleansing is over.
Oh, May your upbeat and compassionate self spread to all those around you. Thank you for being you - let's spread smiles all around.
Have a happy Thanksgiving!
Whim and gZ-
Thank you many times over for
1) Having very inspiring blogs and
2) For being such faithful readers of my own!
Have a delightful holiday!
Someone was here?
Its started getting cold in India since the past two days...
Happy Thanksgiving Liz
No pain, no gain? Sounds trite but the greatest lessons I ever learned seemed to be through suffering. I guess that's the yin-yang of it all.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Hi Princess :)
I agree with Dan. Life's biggest lessons are learnt (sometimes unfortunately) through such times.
But a much often quote I use, in the words of the late great George Harrison, 'All things must pass'
Blessings to you
Melanie
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I'm putting this a few posts back since I could find no email address to respond to.
"Lizard Princess has left a new comment on your post "Gone (But Not Forgotten)":
It seems you are on a quest that has no foreseeable ending. Or perhaps, even worse, it has an elusive ending.
I think you have read my blog enough to know where I sit as far as spirituality goes, so I won't go into it here, but if you ever feel the need to delve into the matter with me you know where to find me (in the blogosphere, anyway!! :-)"
Ok first off way to be cryptic. Secondly I think you have missed the point of my post entirely. I am not on a quest for life to always be pleasant. I know there will always be bad times as well as good. The point I was making is that after having a really good time emotionally (for the first time in years) when it got bad again, for the first since all this started I knew it would get better instead of dwelling on where I was. How does that make it a quest with an elusive or no foreseeable ending exactly?
Just curious...
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