http://jameswoller.com/2006/11/04/76/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:09:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://jameswoller.com/2006/11/04/76/#comment-406 carrie Sun, 05 Nov 2006 03:59:35 +0000 http://jameswoller.com/?p=61#comment-406 james...wow. words cannot express the heaviness that is upon my chest after reading this. my tiny, midwestern mind cannot grasp the reality that you are currently living in. but, jamie...my heart is moved that you are doing what you are doing and that your heart is responding how it's responding...your strenth is torn and i see the beauty of you leaning on Christ with all that you possess. He came to fulfill what we could not, what the strength of our own arm could not provide. He gives us a simple, yet crucial choice...to believe, accept, say yes...to lean our ideals, our "towers" completely down and stand before Him, completely and utterly naked...just as we are...in need of new garments, a whole nother Life source from which we live...will we throw out our broken cisterns or remain proud and allow of our decisions to hinge on OUR intelligence, OUR strength, OUR towers of babble? ahh, jamie...you're in a beautiful place...you are the clay and He is the Potter, He is the Vine and you are the branch...divine order, the way it was intended. and our eyes will never behold such beauty until we are brought to this place....over and over again. the constant revealing of Christ and the process of sanctification is what i find to be very messy at times, but in hindsight-looking back, i see such grace, such precision, almost like a dance...in which every step was intentional, foreknew, and predestined. but that's just me. and i'm just your friend in tennessee who loves you and thanks God upon every remembrance of you, where you are, and what you are doing...there's a means to an end...it just may not always have the end that you had in sight, dear one. :) ok, i'm done with this long e-mail...your eyes hurting yet? ;) ciao, buddy. james…wow. words cannot express the heaviness that is upon my chest after reading this. my tiny, midwestern mind cannot grasp the reality that you are currently living in. but, jamie…my heart is moved that you are doing what you are doing and that your heart is responding how it’s responding…your strenth is torn and i see the beauty of you leaning on Christ with all that you possess. He came to fulfill what we could not, what the strength of our own arm could not provide. He gives us a simple, yet crucial choice…to believe, accept, say yes…to lean our ideals, our “towers” completely down and stand before Him, completely and utterly naked…just as we are…in need of new garments, a whole nother Life source from which we live…will we throw out our broken cisterns or remain proud and allow of our decisions to hinge on OUR intelligence, OUR strength, OUR towers of babble?
ahh, jamie…you’re in a beautiful place…you are the clay and He is the Potter, He is the Vine and you are the branch…divine order, the way it was intended. and our eyes will never behold such beauty until we are brought to this place….over and over again. the constant revealing of Christ and the process of sanctification is what i find to be very messy at times, but in hindsight-looking back, i see such grace, such precision, almost like a dance…in which every step was intentional, foreknew, and predestined. but that’s just me. and i’m just your friend in tennessee who loves you and thanks God upon every remembrance of you, where you are, and what you are doing…there’s a means to an end…it just may not always have the end that you had in sight, dear one. ok, i’m done with this long e-mail…your eyes hurting yet? ciao, buddy.

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