Connor and I got stuck going home today. We couldn't get to across this street to our house. The Amgen Tour of California was in Livermore today as it is every year and it totally shuts down the main street in town as well as downtown. Traffic was horrible and this is where we planted ourselves until we could cross. What you don't see at the end of this video is a minute and a half of cars following the racers with more bikes on their cars. Pretty cool experience.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Perfection
What is perfection?
It's not just an outwardly appearance. To say that she is perfect with her perfect hair, her perfect teeth, her perfect hair, body, you get the picture. Perfectly, right? It's not upholding the perfect image either. You know, so others think you are perfect.
I struggle with that one. If you really saw what my house looked like when I know no one is coming over. Dishes in the sink, laundry in the hall to be sorted and washed, carpets covered in who knows what. But I can't let people see that. And if they happen to, I'm full of excuses while I busy myself with tidying up.
Or the appearance that I can handle and do so much. Really, deep inside, I'm freaking out! Stressed because I have taken too much on, but to proud to say "I can't do it all, HELP ME!!"
Shoot, I can't hardly stand to type a text with2morrow tomorrow or b4 before without going back and fixing it. It drives me crazy for it not to be spelled perfectly.
I have just started the Beth Moore Study about James at our church. We are currently on week 2 and I have a lot to think about. Something that really stuck with me tonight was this...
"Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing." (NKJV)
There's that word again...PERFECT. Beth tells us that in Greek the word for "perfect" describes "that which has achieved or reached its goal, objective, purpose", to be "full-grown" or "fully developed".
By the world's standards we may be able to achieve perfection, or pretty darn close to it. But by God's standards, it's a neverending journey. We will never reach perfection until the day our Savior comes to get us.
So this makes me think...
Who's standards am I living up to?
Who am I doing this all for?
What is the end result that God has purposed for me? Am I on the right path to full maturity in Him? What will it take for His goal for me to be reached?
Am I willing to face the trials of life and consider (*Reflect on, Think of it, experience) pure joy?
What does that look like?
How can you experience joy in life's most difficult trials?
Share with me your thoughts. I pray this stirs in you what it takes to look on all life has with joy.
JOY!
It's not just an outwardly appearance. To say that she is perfect with her perfect hair, her perfect teeth, her perfect hair, body, you get the picture. Perfectly, right? It's not upholding the perfect image either. You know, so others think you are perfect.
I struggle with that one. If you really saw what my house looked like when I know no one is coming over. Dishes in the sink, laundry in the hall to be sorted and washed, carpets covered in who knows what. But I can't let people see that. And if they happen to, I'm full of excuses while I busy myself with tidying up.
Or the appearance that I can handle and do so much. Really, deep inside, I'm freaking out! Stressed because I have taken too much on, but to proud to say "I can't do it all, HELP ME!!"
Shoot, I can't hardly stand to type a text with
I have just started the Beth Moore Study about James at our church. We are currently on week 2 and I have a lot to think about. Something that really stuck with me tonight was this...
"Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing." (NKJV)
There's that word again...PERFECT. Beth tells us that in Greek the word for "perfect" describes "that which has achieved or reached its goal, objective, purpose", to be "full-grown" or "fully developed".
By the world's standards we may be able to achieve perfection, or pretty darn close to it. But by God's standards, it's a neverending journey. We will never reach perfection until the day our Savior comes to get us.
So this makes me think...
Who's standards am I living up to?
Who am I doing this all for?
What is the end result that God has purposed for me? Am I on the right path to full maturity in Him? What will it take for His goal for me to be reached?
Am I willing to face the trials of life and consider (*Reflect on, Think of it, experience) pure joy?
What does that look like?
How can you experience joy in life's most difficult trials?
Share with me your thoughts. I pray this stirs in you what it takes to look on all life has with joy.
JOY!
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