taking the long way home.

see what a failure resolutions can be?! yesterday was day two and i already missed my blog opportunity.

i don't, however, count it all a loss... i did still write. using the clever little app, evernote on my iphone, i jotted a few thoughts down as i prayed at last night's service at TVC. and during the guest sermon, i employed my most-often used app (i digress; aside from facebook and twitter) The Bible via YouVersion. i am obsessed with that app, and its handy little features: such as daily reading plans and the new notes you can tag along to a verse!

if you have a smart phone, these two apps, especially YouVersion, are MUST haves. and guess what? they're free!

back to the point: i think the important part is that i write daily, not that i make you read my inner musings daily. but incase you would like to subject yourselves to such torture, a few thoughts from yesterday:

*as i thought about what it is to be a christian, and how i would be able to respond to a question an unbeliever might have or a concern when asked to pray for something, i thought woah. i am way under-qualified. i don't have the answer for that. but the Lord reminded me that it's not about having all the right answers. it's about knowing who does. and knowing I can come before Him and trust that He will provide them for me, or i can seek out what He says about it in scripture. while Jesus teaches us in His response to the devil as He is tempted in the wilderness that it is best to know scripture so that we always have a response when confronted with something that contradicts it, sometimes we have to know we have the resources on hand and can always humbly say "ya know, i don't know. but i'd be willing to see what the Bible says, and get back to you about that."

*rest is something we receive. it must come from Christ alone. if we seek to serve ourselves, we becomes selfish and exhausted, because we always want to do our best, be our best, out-do ourselves, etc. but when we lay all that aside, and serve Christ, we become renewed. i love this paradox of faith.

*yep. forgot the third point. proof that you only remember 50% of what you see and hear. (and i'll say 10% what you think; but i don't think i read or heard that anywhere) :)