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Friday, 15 February 2008

  • The achings of my inner being...

     

    Who am I? They often tell me
    I stepped from my cell's confinement
    calmly, cheerfully, firmly,
    like a Squire from his country house

    Who am I? They often tell me
    I used to speak to my warders
    freely and friendly and clearly,
    as though it were mine to command.

    Who am I? They also tell me
    I bore the days of misfortune
    equably, smilingly, proudly
    like one accustomed to win.


     


    Am I then really that which
    other men tell of?
    Or am I only what I myself
    know of myself?
    Restless and longing and sick,
    like a bird in a cage,
    struggling for breath, as though
    hands were compressing my throat,
    yearning for colours, for flowers,
    for the voices of birds,
    thirsting for words of kindness,
    for neighbourliness,
    tossing in expectation of great events,
    powerlessly trembling for friends
    at an infinite distance,
    weary and empty at praying,
    at thinking, at making,
    faint, and ready to say farewell to it all.

    Who am I? This or the other?
    Am I one person today and tomorrow another?
    Am I both at once?
    A hypocrite before others,
    and before myself a contemptibly woebegone weakling?
    Or is something within me still
    like a beaten army, fleeing in disorder
    from victory already achieved?

    Who am I? They mock me,
    these lonely questions of mine.
    Whoever I am, Thou knowest, 0 God,
    I am Thine!

    Who Am I?, by Dietrich Bonoeffer

Thursday, 07 February 2008

  • Wonderfilled Counselor...

     

    Well, Mitt Romney has excused himself from the race. I have no reason not to believe that it is a direct result of the fervent prayers of the church. One of the girls in our community had a dream on Monday night that she was in a pay phone booth and needed to call UPS. She didn't know the number to call, but Roger was there with her.  He took her finger and dialed F-A-I-T-H. She woke up with the phrase "What can Brown do for you?" going through her mind. We believe that God is speaking to us that we as the body of Christ need to pay a price with faith for these elections. He's also speaking to us a great deal about humility.

    We will be holding a gathering in Santa Rosa tomorrow as well as on Sunday, and we are mobilizing for a gathering of all the Bound4Life chapters in the state of California February 29th-March 1st which, through a random thread of events, is now going to be held at a hispanic church in the city called Nuevo Pacto. Friends, I am fully convinced that God wants to use the hispanic community to crush the stronghold of abortion in the state of California. God is crossing our paths, and we are beginning to partner as a house of prayer in an entirely new dimension with the hispanic body of Christ for the ending of abortion. This excites me more than I can say, and I feel such a divine moment in my life. Why did I study spanish so intently in my college years? Who knows but that God was awakening my heart some five years ago for this very moment, this very place in time? I love this God.

    Peace to all of you. May God reveal the light of the knowledge of his glory to you in the face of Jesus Christ.

    Love,

    bethany

    P.S. Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVj-Ebk8oSE

     

     

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    • Name: Bethany
    • Birthday: 6/8/1985
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About Me

  • I've always thought that yellow was a nice color...orange is especially nice lately. But alizaron crimson tops them all. I am on a pilgrimage, an upward climb to the lowliest place of all, looking for communion with Jesus Christ rejected and scorned, beaten, broken, crucified and risen, that, by any means possible, I might attain the resurrection from the dead. I'm fond of pirates and brigands as well...

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