Somewhere In Between/Lifehouse

waiting
and wondering
the clock is ticking
yet no time to make haste
an irritated state of mind
a basket case
this fretful heart of mine
suspended in mid air

Peace, the Lord hath saith
between dream and reality
a leap of faith

taking flight

Gosh! It was twenty years ago when I first read Hinds’ Feet on High Places.
It was one of the ten books on the must read list.
I was in Leuven, Belgium then.
It was the summer of 1984;
a shy and timid 20 year old that lived a very sheltered life
being transported to another continent!
Well, for a father who wouldn’t even let me go to the field trips
while I was in high school,
I’m forever grateful to him for letting me go in search of service to my new found faith –
A God that’s foreign to him and his culture and tradition.
Looking back now, Dad must have a lot of faith in trusting me to God,
for which I can only count for yet another of His mysterious ways.

much afraid/jarsofclay

"I am afraid," she said.
"I have been told that if you really love someone
you give that loved one the power to hurt and pain you in a way nothing else can."
"That is true," agreed the Shepherd.
"To love does mean to put yourself into the power of the loved one and to become very vulnerable to pain,
and you are very Much-Afraid of pain, are you not?"

-Chapter 1,Hinds' feet on high places

i am Much-Afraid.

The upcoming Campus visit

I gave birth to you, a tiny baby, a bundle of joy
You were mine for a while
As God had made it clear
That you belong to Him

While I was caring for your new born brother
You were busy copying the ABC
From the newspapers sprawled on the floor
You were not even four

As any new parents, with you I made the most mistakes
It’s only by the grace of God you are who you are today
And now, my first born, my sixteen-year old
Is he ready to be his own man to face this merciless World?

(I guess no parents are ever ready when the time comes to send them off to college)

in retrospect -

just when you thought

that the coast is clear/this is the way to go,

God throws you a curve ball or pulls the rug under your feet...
the fact of the matter is: life is full of uncertainties but you are certain of who God is,and that He is good.

Isaiah 55:8-9

⁸"My thoughts are completely different from yours," says the LORD.

"And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.

⁹For just as the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

statefair - Matthew West & FFH

天凉好个秋