Words of Wisdom

Words of Wisdom from my nine-year-old brother on a walk yesterday afternoon:

"Just don't even try to find good clothes in the mall. Especially at the entrance next to Maggianos."

For one thing, I can't even say what store is next to Maggianos. And for another thing, there are some good clothes at the mall. But to hear that my little brother had noticed that it's like digging in the garbage dumpster to find that one perfect thing at the mall was pretty cool. This was actually part of a longer conversation which was quite funny.

Wrecked Upon the Rock

I read this on the Girltalk Blog this afternoon. Precious.

As a newlywed, Darlene Deibler Rose served as a missionary in New Guinea with her husband from 1938 to 1942. Then, for four years, she was imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II and endured almost unspeakable hardships, including solitary confinement, near starvation, beatings and loss of her husband, Russell Deibler. Yet in her book, Evidence Not Seen, she wrote:

"Viewing those eight years from this far side, I marvel at the wisdom and love of our God, Who controls the curtains of the stage on which the drama of our lives is played; His hand draws aside the curtains of events only far enough for us to view one sequence at a time. Had those eight years been revealed to me in one panoramic view that misty gray January morning in 1938, would I have had the courage to board the ship? I wonder. Through the intervening years, tempestuous winds of gale force have buffeted me. Waves of tidal proportions have threatened to carry me under or dash me upon the rocks. But knowing now what I did not know those many years ago... I can thank my God for every storm that has wrecked me upon the Rock, Christ Jesus!" (pp.221-222)

Psalm 139

Month Two of my goal of memorizing a chapter of Scripture every month, is already gone! I can't believe it's so quickly March 1. Here is Psalm 139 from memory, as best I can remember.

O LORD, Thou has searched me and known me.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; thou understandest my thought afar off.
Thou compassest my path and my lying down; Thou art acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word in my tongue, but lo, O LORD, Thou knowest it altogether.
Thou hast beset me behind and before and laid Thine hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high I cannot attain unto it.
Whither shall I go from Thy spirit and whither shall I flee from Thy presence.
If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, Thou art there.
If I take the wings of the morning or dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea
Even there Thy hand will lead me and Thy right hand will guide me.
If I say, Surely darkness will cover me; the night shall be light about me,
Yea, the darkness hideth not from Thee; the night shineth as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to Thee.

For Thou hast possessed my reins; Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
I will praise Thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Thy works, O God, and that my soul knoweth right well.
I was not hid from Thee when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Thine eyes did see me, yet being unperfect and in Thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were formed when as yet there was none of them.
How precious, also, are Thy thoughts towards me, O God, how great is the sum of them.
If I should number them, they would be more than the sand; and when I arise, I am still with Thee.

Care to join us in memorizing Romans 6 in March?

Ten Pages A Day, Part Three

Part Three ~ Books on My Reading List To Be Started and Finished This Year

I'm continuing this small, and probably boring, series, on my reading goals for 2011. Perhaps I'll end the series (a couple of posts from now) with my reason for so many reading goals this year, but for now... Part Three.

Commentary on Galatians by Martin Luther. I ordered this book recently after Daddy's great series in Galatians.

Redemption Accomplished and Applied by John Murray. I've been looking forward to reading this one for a while. I've heard many great things about this book. Quotes coming soon.

There are many more "start and finish" goals, but they come under Part Four.

Notable Quotable on a Friday

“Our God being love, and mercy his delight, he would gladly show how well he could love creatures; he was most glad of the greatest opportunity to show it. Therefore he resolves upon this course, to reconcile enemies, whatever the cost — for the more they should cost him, the gladder should they be.

The making of a thousand new friends could not have expressed so much love as the reconciling of one enemy. To love and delight in friends, who had never wronged him, was too narrow, shallow, and slight a way. He had heights, depths, breadth of love , which nothing but the depths of our misery could have drawn out.” ~Thomas Goodwin