OUR HEARTS

Bob Goff (@bobgoff) 6/10/12 7:52 AM Jesus is more interested in our hearts than our plans. Plan's work out or don't; our hearts define our lives @lovedoes

LOVE, UNCONDITIONALLY

SOME NIGHTS, ART IS FUN.

Every once in a while words elude me. Every once in a while they aren't the art that speaks to me. That feeds me. That slakes the thirst of the beast of a thing inside me, especially at 3:00 am. Sometimes, Some Nights, it's music, television, photography, nature, shadows and light that tell me to Carry On. Every once in a while there are a million other types of art vying for my attention, shouting at me louder than words usually do: "We are Truth!"

Here are two new songs that mean something special to me, and not just because The Format's Interventions Lullabies record was the anthem of our freshman year of college. But because his lyrics are haunting. They speak of Truth, and yet make you rethink everything you think you already know.


His lyrics aren't for the feint of heart. They aren't for people who aren't sure of what they say they believe. They make you think very carefully about what is true and what is false, what is fake and what is real, and what it feels like to be human in a broken world run by the Devil. Now, you don't have to agree. But if just one of these screams or even whispers "I am Truth" to you, then that God and I call a success.

Get lost in them. Feel moved by them. But above all, especially my opinions, feelings, and taste in music: Seek Truth.

 

 

Some Nights by Fun.

 

 

Carry On by Fun.

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SOMETIMES

Sometimes, all God wants you to do today is to laugh with Him and enjoy the day and life He has given you. And sometimes I hope I can do more than vent, rant, and simply uplift or encourage. Sometimes, I want my only goal in a post to be to make you laugh...or at least smile today.

You're welcome.

PEOPLE OF THE SECOND CHANCE

One of the best and most amazing, radical, life altering things that has ever happened to me is finding People Of The Second Chance and learning about Radical Grace, about Gracenomics. Please, please, please do yourself and others the radical favor of going to their website and seeing what they are about. It will change everything. 

http://www.potsc.com

THE PLOTS OF GOD

"If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying." - C. S. Lewis

Free will creates suffering. But if there weren't free will, there wouldn't be love. The choice to love. The love God longs to share wholly and purely with us. 

This war of the Principalities of Darkness vs. The Kingdom of God is worth the choice to choose God and His love to me. It took me quite a while and a few reads of The Problem Of Pain by C. S. Lewis to realize it, but I pray you realize it too. He sees all. He knows all. Trust Him regardless. what is to come makes it all worth it. 

Poe says, "The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God." 

I agree. 

GOD IS IN US

"Something of God...flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.'" - C. S. Lewis

DON'T HIDE YOUR HUMANITY

TWLOHA (@TWLOHA) 6/6/12 10:01 AM "Most depressed people try very hard to be happy. It is exhausting work." wrt.lv/KBsQlc

ARMED FOR TRIBULATION

C. S. Lewis (@CSLewisDaily) 6/5/12 1:47 PM #42 God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain

The Sentient Life

Just when you foolishly think there is NOTHING left to lose--you've suffered through it all...

You're left crying yourself to sleep watching everyone you love most suffer through their own pain and loss and grief...

It's unbearable...

It's unbearable...

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.