Die for love.

Everyone will pass
And when we breathe our last
Can we say we have lived for more?
And did we live to die for love?

I'd like to use this post not to say anything uncommonly profound, but instead to brag on God. He is such a beautiful God, so enveloping in love. I truly feel that He has lavished me with blessings, and I don't know why, but I can use that to praise Him and lift Him up. So many desires He gives me, and so many desires He fills in my life. This week has been refreshing and beautiful, though I did not realize until tonight. So many good things have occurred to make this week one of the best, though my cold has made me blind to some of the goodness.

I would like to thank my Father in Heaven for friends, for music, for beauty and grace. For the solid parents He gave me and the protective siblings. For the trusting spirit He blessed me with, and for my uncommonly (I think) strong faith. For my skills and the skills of others, and the ability to use them to glorify Him. For the basics: clean water and food, clothing and shelter, knowledge and love. The ability to see sin and stay away from it, and the ability to see light and wander towards it.

Often I am consumed in thoughts, and I forget to stop and praise the God Almighty. I truly want my soul to find rest in God alone (Psalm 62:1), and I want to consistently thirst for God (psalm 42). It is my wish that the thirst would never be quenched, but that it would continue to blossom and grow all of my life.

Thoroughly and completely, I want to win this war. I want to live to die for love.

For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Philippians 1:21

Let's live for more that this world gives us. Let's become people who identify with Christ before identifying with the world. Let's turn away from this world, but live to save it. Who's with me?

Joel 2:13 - Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.

Love always,
Lauren