a Heart's Ramblings.

I was talking to a some sisters at Church last week about the ways we have found that help us best digest the scripture we're reading.  The oldest mentioned having to read the whole NT in a very short amount of time for a college assignment, after which her class also required her to write down a few thoughts/notes about each book. "Wow.  Was that difficult?"  "Ummm.... yes.' (hello??  I'm not sure why I even asked?)  'But it was so good, too!  I feel like I learned so much - just in a different way - by reading entire books of the bible all in one sitting rather than spreading it out."  We decided that it would probably be good for Christians (namely, us...) to mix things up a bit and try different "methods" of reading/studying to get a fuller picture, a more complete perspective. I've been wanting to read Job again, so I pulled it out the other day, and finished it this morning.  I can't say I felt I learned anything hugely d...

I still find dear Eva on my mind so very often... In a way, I feel it's a positive thing because I'm urged to pray for her, but in another I don't like the unsettlement I feel when I think of her.  Not just her, but how helpless she is, and how she doesn't have a clue about it.  How she is living her life thinking that her eternal future is written in the book, set in stone.  But it's not.  The whole thing has given me a need to understand free will, God's sovereignty, the things that though I had never cared about before or I thought I understood, confuse me now.  It's hard for me to accept that such hungry souls can be deceived by the devil in such a terrible way as to actually believe that they know God when they don't.  So hard.  Even more so, to realize nothing in my power can MAKE her see the truth - The Creator of her soul is the one and only.  Talk about even harder. But I can pray.  I can live my life in such a way right NOW, that ...