Healing may be painful, but you have nothing to lose. You are hurting anyways; you might as well reap the full benefit of your suffering.

This is a line from a book Im reading. It was one of those sentances that just made me go hmmm.

Healing is painful. I've avoided it for years - Ive avoided it becuase it is painful. I'm kinda at the point in my life where I can no longer avoid it. I'm pretty much at rock bottem...and if Im not at rock bottem - I really dont want to know what rock bottem is. I dont want to go there.

Thing is Im hurting anyways...and like J. Meyer says - "...might as well reap the full benefit of your suffering."

Its like when you get a cut. You dont want the alchal wipes - they sting...healing is painful, healing stings....but dude its worth it eh? Its worth the pain. Im sold.

God is here.

Currently Reading - "Ill Fight" by Phil Wall
and
"Beauty for Ashes" by Joyce Meyer

(im not really on my book a month quota eh?, gotta get back on it =P)

I've personaly never been one to have a "Sabbath" day as some Christians I know encourage. I havent fully had an arugement for it either - just that holiness is where we can find continual rest. Maybe my problem is I dont have knowledge on what a Sabbath really is. I might be wrong on the following interpretation but I was reading and meditating on Isaiah 58 this morning and wrote this down. Im also not knocking the idea of having a day set aside I just havent been convinced into one.

The LORD speaks through Isaiah and says keep the Sabbath and goes on to say that it looks like

• honoring the LORD
• not doing your own thing
• or speaking idoly

and it is by doing that where we find joy and we feast and we ride of the heights of the land....hmm, sounds like honoring the Sabbath is simply holiness? Now if I recall holines is a lifestyle, so therefore the Sabbath is a lifestyle too, right? So why do we reserve one day a week to rest and to have a "Sabbath", for if we are walking in holiness we are in a 24/7 Sabbath, are we not?

If we are not walking in holiness, does that mean we should reserve weekly time for a "Sabbath". I keep putting Sabbath in quotations, becuase Im a bit lost on what that means...maybe i should study Sabbath before I blog about it eh? Anyways just putting my thoughts out there and I welcome feedback as a sift through this.

Maybe my next blog with be on Sabbath...Shabat - and the depth of it.

God is here.

worship.
thats the answer.

ive been in somewhat of a spiritual slump these days. okay, somewhat is a bit of an under-statement....ive been in a huge spiritual slump. it has been lame, and by lame i mean horribly aweful.

so now im back in vancouver...and about a week ago i spent some sweet time in pure worship. and it was there that i realised what worship is...its not something i can explain on a blog to you, or its not even something i can teach you, its a personal revalation....all i can do is encourage you into pure worship. just worship...it will solve anything. worship is the answer.

worship worship worship

God is here.

yo

thats my new favorite word...yo

anyways, its been a while, figured i would write something.

so ive been back in vancouver for a week now...i dont really know why im back...i guess to rest, be built back up...but i havent really done that this week...ive been pretty busy, i like busy...but sometimes busy can get in the way of stuff. or so im told anyways. its hard for me not to be busy.

two beautiful friends of mine got married yesterday. a lovely couple. their lives are both pure and gentle, powerful and mighty. i admire these two greatly. people i aim to be like. below is a shot of the first ever regan - jeni kiss. now thats the way to do it.



God Bless ya Mr. and Mrs. Lipsett!

God is here