H - 10 [Migrated Post]

Your trophy, your pillar, my vow.

A favorite from all the photos I took during our final technical meeting in Bali before the wedding. Something I know I'll treasure during our golden anniversary. I can literally hear God saying, "Look at them. It was I who united them, in their powerlessness and in My strength."

I mean, it's 10 friggin' days left!!!!!! Had my last gown fitting earlier yesterday, just received our senior pastor's blessings personally, going to set up our bedroom later on this weekend. Me and hubs-to-be are completely freaking out right now. Like, facing each other, shaking the other's shoulders with both hands, saying, "OMG babe, we're getting married!!!" As if it's just dawning on us.

Trust me, you don't know where life can lead you the moment you surrender and let Love in.

The Perfect Image-Bearer [Migrated Post]

The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth, page 21

To today's most advanced thinkers, academics like Richard Dawkins, the Charles Simony Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, and other militant materialists who regulate and maintain the scientific world-view, the mind of God' is no better than the idea of a white-haired old man up above the clouds. It is the same mistake, they say, that children and primitive tribes make when they assume God must be like them - the anthropomorphic fallacy. Even if we allowed that God might conceivably exist, they say, why on earth should 'He' be like us? Why should 'His' mind be in any way like ours? The fact is that they're right. Of course there is no reason at all ... unless it's the other way round. In other words, the only reason why God's mind might be like ours is if ours was made to be like His - that is, if God made us in His image.


The Sacred History by Jonathan Black, page 176

Elijah, the Buddha, Socrates and Apollonius brought spiritual awareness and understanding to the world - the knowledge that we are all interconnected, that we should show compassion to every living thing, that we must play our part in the world's evolving. They all knew on some level what was happening and what had to happen, but it was Jesus Christ who brought the power that made it happen. He had the power to turn history on its hinges. Elijah, Buddha, Pythagoras brought faith and hope, but Jesus Christ brought love.