a Heart's Ramblings.

 If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world. (C.S. Lewis) How gives The Lord this rest? As my God lives, I’ll tell you, Sloth: he gives his rest Under a yoke—his sweet bequest, Blood-bought, and suited to the back Of every weary saint. The knack Of all our plowing: Jesus makes The weighty burden light, and takes The yoke-beams in his hand, and lifts and carries us. Our works are gifts. And Jesus is the giver. Grace Bought and powers every pace, And every enterprise. Sloth, we were made, and made again, to be Co-makers with the Maker of the world—to see the world above and then to make the world below More beautiful, to learn, to know, And then to make, to shape, adorn, compose, produce, and turn a thorn Into an etching tool—to write, to say What never has been said that way, To sing, to draw, to paint, to build, To stitch and weave until we’ve filled The world with truth. For this...

the simplest of notions can put my heart at so much peace as I think about it's truth.  Bekah told me: Just STOP. Live like you are the branch on a vine... not the vine itself, Anna.   That's not what you are. I'm just a branch.  There is only one life-giving vine, and it's trying to fill me and give me what I need to thrive. I can't thrive, much less breath   all on my own.  There is only one life-giving vine, and it's not me. praise you, Lord.  Precious Lord, YOU are my vine <3  Make my heart the soft, tender heart of a child to rest in YOUR life-giving!

 It’s the desert that dries up our infatuation with worldliness.  And it’s the desert that draws us to the well of the world to come. Jon Bloom

Productivity is effectively stewarding our gifts, talents, time, energy, and (yes... even...) enthusiasm for the good of others and the glory of God... You can do this in full view of others and you can do this when you are all alone.  Productivity is a lifelong pursuit that reaches into every area of who we are and what we do.  One key principle in making our time-management Christian is this: Let love for others be the driver of your disciplined, intentional planning. .. One way to make it practical is to schedule the time both for proactive good in the calling God has given us and reactive good that responds to the urgent needs of others. Without scheduling, we will falter at the proactive; without flexibility, we’ll be unavailable for the reactive. When the gospel floods our soul, and our schedules, and we know deeply that “Christ Jesus has made me his own,” then, in all our imperfections and indiscretions — but alive in faith, powered by the Spirit, and driven by...