Let your light shine

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There's a meteor shower tonight.
If only I had the child-like wonder to actually get up at 3am..to watch the amazing show God wants to put on for us.
Well I guess I would, if I had a star-gazing buddy.
Ah, when I'm married.

God is so good..I had the sweetest time in prayer yesterday, like old times but even better. I wonder if someone's praying for me =).

We had a nice bible study today, just us 4 girls:). Came across this quote in DFD, "Humility means trusting God and others with you."

I thought I was getting pretty good at this humility thing with all this fasting every week, but I never realized that humility is also tied to trust, at least in people. Trusting people: being willing to open up, to love and pour out all your good and bad without reserve, in child-like expectation that someone will be there to pick you up. And that's what God wants, His people to carry each other's burdens so the world would know we're different.

But man, is it hard to trust. People are messed up and hurtful, and experiencing that has made me hold on with all my might to my ways of self-preservation. But as I ask Him why and how He wants me to let people in when I already have Him, it becomes clear that it's the way to life and love.

If I do get hurt or rejected, He promises to make me new again. These Bethany Dillon lyrics have become so true for me in the past months, every time I come to Him in prayer: "You cry over me for hours and I'm new again." And from Rick Pino's song Your Love is Like: "When it's just you and me, I can't remember storms." Reminds me that the world's daggers can do all the damage to me, but in the end I'll have my God to make me new again.

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A. Manullang said…
what if ur future husband doesn't like stars?
October 23, 2009 at 7:32 PM
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