I get stuck. I can't complete my thoughts. I can't get myself to satisfactory answers. I don't know if it's because my mind is racing too fast with too much right now, or if it is one of the ebbs of life that I need to persevere through, or very likely both.
If I posted all the half-written thoughts I have started with good intentions of publishing, readers would be very amused indeed, but I don't even feel satisfied with those half-written thoughts.
I've been reading through Proverbs in a quest for wisdom, because I was suddenly struck one day with the thought of how much one needs wisdom to live life, and how very little I pursue it. Rather than gaining any wisdom though, I feel I've only learned how very unwise I am.
Circumstances in life have also brought me to my wit's end as to the right course to take. I've learned lately that there are some things that just simply are not black and white, and God actually made them that way on purpose, to teach us to trust Him.
Inadequacy overwhelms me too, at times. My own inability to complete things as I desire to, my own inability to do things as I know I should. My own inability to even know what to do.
And in short, how could I ever blog to encourage others when every day I'm clinging to the Word and God's promises to encourage myself just to keep moving forward.
O, I am not depressed. I am not down-trodden. I am blessed, and I thankful. And humbled.
So, when the Lord gives me thoughts to share again, I promise I'll be back. But until then, I'm getting lost in the Lord.
Why I haven't written
Saturday, April 24, 2010 | | 0 Comments
Update
I have sorely neglected this blog, of late, but I certainly have excuses.
Christmas time has come and gone, and my last Christmas at home was the sweetest I will remember of my childhood.
My sister got married! View some pictures at your leisure here or here.
My wedding planning has officially begun. Did anyone know that the hardest thing to find in northeast Ohio would be a horse-drawn-carriage?
I have been trying to be diligent in pursuing as many titles off of my 101 Books to Read. For your interest or not, here they are. :)
Book List - 100 books for 2010
2. Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens
3. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
4. Crime and Punishment, Fydor Dostoyevsky
5. The Brothers Karamovoz, Fydor Dostoyevsky
6. A Practical View of Christianity, William Wilberforce
7. The Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
8. The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien
9. Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien
10. The Screwtape Letters, C.S Lewis
11. A Body of Divinity, Thomas Boston
12. Lex Rex, Samuel Rutherford
13. The Prince, Machiavelli
14. The Inferno, Dante
15. Biography on John Newton
16. Lady Susan, Jane Austen
17. Counterfeit Gods, Timothy Keller
18. Prodigal God, Timothy Keller
19. Alls Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare
20. As You Like It, Shakespeare
21. Othello, Shakespeare
22. Hamlet, Shakespeare
23. On Man and the Universe, Aristotle
24. The Republic, Plato
25. I, Isaac, Take Thee Rebekah, Ravi Zacharias
26. Les Miserable, Victor Hugo
27. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
28. Institutes of Christian Religion, John Calvin
29. Bondage of the Will, Martin Luther
30. Good Booklet of the True Christian Life, John Calvin
31. Transforming Grace, Jerry Bridges
32. Instruments in the Redeemers Hand, Paul Tripp
33. The Complete Works of Flannery O’Connor, Flannery O’Connor
34. Wulf the Saxon, G.A. Henty
35. Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte
36. Middlemarch, George Elliot
37. The Iliad, Homer
38. The Odyssey, Homer
39. 1776, David McCullough
40. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
41. Reforming Marriage, Douglas Wilson
42. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinback
43. 1984, George Orwell
44. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
45. The Old Man in The Sea, Ernest Hemmingway
46. Julius Caesar, Shakespeare
47. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander
48. The Masque fo the Red Death, Edgar Allen Poe
49. The Pit and the Pendulum, Edgar Allen Poe
50. The Oval Portrait, Edgar Allen Poe
51. The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allen Poe
52. The Gold Bug, Edgar Allen Poe
53. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Edgar Allen Poe
54. The Aeneid, Virgil
55. The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
56. The Gathering Storm, Winston Churchill
57. My Dearest Friend, Love Letters of Abigail and John Adams
58. Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill
59. A History of the Modern World, R. R. Palmer
60. The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
61. Gone with the Wind, Mitchel
62. A Place of Grace, Susan Hunt
63. Feminine Appeal, Carolyn Mahaney
64. The Westminster Confession of Faith
65. The French Revolution and Napoleon, Gershoy
66. The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis
67. The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
68. The Horse and His Boy, C.S. Lewis
69. Prince Caspian, C.S. Lewis
70. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis
71. Silver Chair, C.S. Lewis
72. The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis
73. Henry IV, Shakespeare
74. The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
75. Catch 22,
76. The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
77. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
78. The Master of Ballantrae, Robert Louis Stevenson
79. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
80. The Mustery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens
81. Utopia, Thomas More
82. Jacob Have I Love, Katherine Patterson
83. A Kiss for Cinderella, J.M. Barrie
84. King Arthur and His Knights, Sir James Knowles
85. Queen Victoria: Her Life and Reign, John A. Cooper
86. The Ultimate Gift, Jim Stovall
87. What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!, Agatha Christie
88. The Ivory Door, A.A. Milne
89. The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom
90. Hadassah: The Girl Who Became Queen, Tommy Tenney
91. Darwin’s Black Box, Michael Behe
92. Christy, Catherine Marshall
93. The Wedding Journey, Walter D. Edmonds
94. The Story of My Life, Hellen Keller
95. Boy Meets Girl, Joshua Harris
96. Catherine Called Birdie, Karen Cushman
97. Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
98. Old Fashioned Girl, Louisa May Alcott
99. The Difficulty of Getting Married, Serena Blandish
Thursday, January 21, 2010 | | 0 Comments
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