life: acoustic & amplified
poetry, quotes & thoughts about life
Archive for the category “Gospel”
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, but must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
The prosecutor of your soul can’t ever nail you: Time can’t wreck your life. You can’t wreck your life. Nothing in all of this world can separate you from the love of Christ and His love is your life. Your life is unwreckable because Christ’s love is unstoppable.
– Ann Voskamp
www.aholyexperience.com
Grace is surely amazing
Everyone’s life is unwreckable
because Christ’s love is unstoppable
I love these lovely words.
I adore these grand thoughts.
What a fabulous trade off.
I had no real idea,
that to accept this invitation,
is to give up,
my selfish desires,
my ego,
my broken heart,
my unbearable pain.
For this life changing
love,
grace,
freedom,
healing.
It is stepping into
an ever deepening mystery,
the adventure of a lifetime,
wisdom and beauty unknown,
this wild pool of faith.
I have gotten so much more than I could ever have imagined!
I got it all!
life and life abundantly
grace that is greater
than I’ll ever be able to fully comprehend.
AL 8/8/13
faith in Jesus is not an argument to be won, it is an invitation into life changing grace, into life changing love
if grace is an ocean we’re all sinking
– John Mark Mc Millan (How He Loves)
Good news becomes bad news when it is announced without peace and joy. Anyone who proclaims the forgiving and healing love of Jesus with a bitter heart is a false witness. Jesus is the savior of the world. We are not. We are called to witness, always with our lives and sometimes with our words, to the great things God has done for us. But this witness must come from a heart that is willing to give without getting anything in return.
The more we trust in God’s unconditional love for us, the more able we will be to proclaim the love of Jesus without any inner or outer conditions. – Henri Nouwen
I am currently reading Paul Zahl’s book Grace in Practice and it is rockin’ my world!!! Highly recommend it! Available on Amazon
living in eternity
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. –Henry Van Dyke
there is grace on ground like this
we can say that every step we take
of every day we live
Wherever we are is sacred ground
every bush we see burning with holy
every rock singing glory
every bird testament of abundance
every flower testament to extravagant love
every waterfall
every rainbow
and moonbow
and drop of the summer rain
shimmers with promise
rocks standing firm in the faith
glittering in sunshine
we are made of stars
held together with mud
breathing the very same breath as our creator
the anti matter of the universe swirls around our feet
life and death our greatest gifts
the space between can be our brilliantly colored heaven
or the darkest shades of hell
we choose our path with every decision
free will is our constant companion
choices are most important
we keep rising from the ashes of our choices
better or bitter
we become the words we speak
wake up and guard them well
how well and often we give thanks
determines our joy
until we cross the portal
into the next adventurous chapter
al 7/16/13
There are no interruptions in a day. There are only manifestations of Christ. Manifestations of Love. – Ann Voskamp
You are doing something great with your life – when you’re doing all the small things with His Great love.
– Ann Voskamp
only forgiveness breaks the law of karma – Raimundo Panikkar
The historic story of Christ, the outside story of Christ, suddenly emerges as the inside story of yourself – and it is this inner story, this inner parallel, that really makes the Bible inspired, so that your condition becomes the living word of God.
– George MacLeod
One of my very favorite quotes is by Maya Angelou, Do the best you can until you know better. When you know better, do better. This is the gospel in us. We are called to allow God to work in us, to be open and learn…continually. Truth is a moving and living word within us to allow us to become more as we grow in relationship with love. We will never be ‘perfect’ in this life. We will never get to retire from this life’s calling. This is the amazing part of amazing grace. It never leaves us a lone to figure it out on our own. Love continues…always…and causes us to do something remarkable…to move from obedience to surrender and every day to fall deeper and deeper in love.
Thirsty?
the power of choosing creative forces
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation – either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
life: acoustic & amplified 