This life is not the last.

"For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened-- not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee." 2 Corinthians 5:4-5

I will babble along to myself on here:
I write to remind myself of things that I want to remember, spiritually, physically, emotionally. I write to remember. I also write to inform, not that I have much worthy of informing others on. I am oh so beyond thinking I have knowledge beyond what others can sit and wait for their own revelation of. God is the God of waiting and the God of I believe sharing. He shared himself to us, Charis- gave himself. I believe he shares with us also moments of clarity, and chooses the most random moments to teach us things that we have heard forever but never chose to truly listen to.

Yesterday was a day of slow. I cleaned, I sat and read the hobbit, I read a book for leadership at church, I watched dirty dancing.....


I watched dirty dancing.

As I watched, I felt a longing in my heart for adventure, and the same story as she. I kept watching and it got deeper and deeper into my soul how much I longed for a man to love me, to treat me precious, to cherish me- and I him. I kept watching and I saw turmoil in them as they realized they could not be together forever. It ends with them having a last dance together. Who knows if the author decided if they would be together after the credits roll. Who knows if whatever they had lasted. But, is what they had truly love, truly cherishing, truly worth my time, or yours?
I came to find, after a while of sitting alone and wishing,

the answer is absolutely no.

We shave this world down to grains of sand hoping for something to fulfill and build us up to boulders, hills and mountains. As we sit shaving this world and digging into deeper pits, we become more lost, and further away from the one thing that fulfills.

A mind that is set 

on the things of the flesh 

and this world, 

leads to death.

And the mind that is set 

on the things of the spirit, 

is life and peace.

Romans 8:5

 I have heard this verse, time and time again. It seems typical to put a verse such as this on a post about not dwelling on the things of this world. But if the spirit does it's work, as always. There will be something said about what we choose to dwell on, there will be those moments when we choose to walk away in our mind from the father who wants to protect us from this world and wants to keep us from walking into it, and becoming lost in the darkness of the emptiness. This is not to say that it is hopeless if we struggle with dwelling on things that do bring death. He has come to deliver us and to bring us out of our struggle and to bring us into life. We will fail, more than once, until the day we die. Praise Jesus that we are a redeemed people if we choose to trust in who he says he is.

I have come so that you may have life, and have it ABUNDANTLY.-Jesus

Go under his mercy.