Its funny how many times God can bring a passage or word or friend or picture or butterfly into your life just for the specific purpose of showing you His love or helping you into a realization that He has lying right in front of your face.
My Utmost For His Highest July 30:
Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgements in life; it means being free from these deceptions. However, though no longer deceived, our experience of disillusionment that comes from God brings us to the point where we see people as they really are, yet without any cynicism or any stinging and bitter criticism. Many of the things in life that inflict the greatest injury, grief, or pain, stem from the fact that we suffer from illusions. We are not true to one another as facts, seeing each other as we really are; we are only true to our misconceived ideas of one another. According to our thinking, everything is either delightful and good, or it is evil, malicious, and cowardly.
Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being something which he or she cannot possibly give. There is only one Being who can completely satisfy to the absolute depth of the hurting heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord is so obviously uncompromising with regard to every human relationship because He knows that every relationship that is not based on faithfulness to Himself will end in disaster. Our Lord trusted no one, and never placed His faith in people, yet HE was never suspicious or bitter. Our Lord's confidence in God, and in what God's grace could do for anyone, was so perfect that He never despaired, never giving up hope for any person. If our trust is placed in human beings, we will end up despairing of everyone.
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Also today I opened up some frames that I had bought at a thrift store that appeared to have cards in them. I thought oh well I can use the cards and the frames both, a two for one deal for a measly fifty cents! Well, turns out I opened up someone's life that they disposed of in a thrift store donation bin. Frame after frame I opened to find card after card depicting a different moment in the woman's life. Eliza teaches. She was once in love, and was in some sort of relationship for at least five years. I feel like I opened up someone's diary. It was a little eerie.
And yes I am going back tomorrow to buy the rest of the frames.
Monday, July 30, 2007
she reads of disillusionment
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Had I known that you had a blog Ms. Julie, I would have been reading it everyday long ago. However, as I am just now discovering this, I must leave a universal comment to cover all the previous posts.
As you can imagine, that is quite impossible so I was just leave it at I love you, I´m terribly thrilled to have found this blog, and I´m a little sad to not be spending Sunday lunches with my Anderson friends, though spending it with my Peru friends is a formidable replacement.
I love you dearly Miss Julie and find your brilliance fascinating. I also wanted you to know that you have written what I needed to read at just the right moment. Way to be a tool of God young lady! He's awesome, ain't He?
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