My heart has broken, my soul is crying out.

Why does it hurt, is this how He felt.

Why do we hide you, Lord?

Why do we not tell the world about you?

20th of April thought of the day

Caught in between sleep and sorrow.
Hoping for the 'morrow.

Where does God dwell?

This weekend the question became posed in my mind, "Where does God dwell?"

In the past He dwelled in the temple,

In the past He dwelled in cloud,

In the past He dwelled in a burning bush,

In the past He dwelled behind a very thick curtain,

In the past He dwelled on a mountain,

BUT THE CURTAIN HAS BEEN TORN.

THE GATE HAS BEEN OPENED

THE BRIDGE RESTORED

In the present He dwells in my heart,

In the future He dwells in my heart,

For the rest of eternity He will dwell in my heart,

No where else, but my heart.

He does not dwell in the building, people call the church, but in the hearts of the people that make the church. His presence is in each of us, not the building. Wherever we are at, wherever we may be, He dwells within us. As we give him praise and honor with the honoring of the temple, which is our body. We worship him, with song, praise, joy, and dance. We give him thanks through song and dance. We worship him in everything we do, walking, talking, etc.

"a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance"

Ecclesiastes 3:4

Even David, a man after God's own heart, danced! Give Praise to our Lord and Saviour through our whole selves, in everything, everything we do!

2 Samuel 6:13-15

¹³ When those who were carrying the ark of the LORD had taken six steps, he sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf. ¹⁴ Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the LORD with all his might, ¹⁵ while he and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the LORD with shouts and the sound of trumpets.

Are we all to you, just lost causes

Life can get difficult... life can get hard... life can get downright intolerable...

When my head is aching, hurting, it is hard to think, hard to sleep, hard to do anything. My week has been tough this week, realizing my weaknesses, realizing, just realizing.

Tomorrow is a new day, new life, new hope, new energy, new day to continue putting my faith in God.

Realizing that he will give me strength in my hard times.

Keep fighting, keep pushing, keep up the good fight....you'll make it. He says to me.

So I will continue fighting, continue pushing, continue the good fight, and I will make it.

The World

The World
Why is it so hard to live in as a believer in Christ? because we are not of this world. We are "only visiting this planet" as Larry Norman would say. Just visiting, that's it, not from here, did originate here, just visiting. I have been sheltered just a little bit in my Christian bubble, most of the friends are Christians, same beliefs, but once again I was exposed to the world and I guess you could say I didn't like it....I was uncomfortable, bored, a little shocked at some of depraved language and conversations going on.

In a world, where absolute truth is irrelevant, where there is no black&white, but lots and lots of gray, where each person decides what is right based on what they feel, where there is morality only when it fits in with their individual lives.

Just yesterday I read a verse:

"In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33b

So I guess God was telling me yesterday, to take heart, because Jesus has already overcome the world!


I will leave you with this video:

Mirror, stays the same

Life is a mystery
with all of it's history
young and old
for all to behold
through the years
we stay like mirrors
reflecting ourselves
every time we open our mouths

If you thought we evolve
look back as the world revolves
we've never changed
our thoughts always deranged
beginning of time
the same desires
the end of time
the same desires

always increasing never ceasing
always binding never releasing

They hold us until we scream
and our Father rescues us
from these never ceasing
desires of our hearts

Barista's the land of coffee beans and friendly service....ahem...if you enjoy sarcasm and funny jabs. Which I do, so I am safe. Today was my first day being a Barista although I didn't make any espresso, or lattes, or mochas. But I did make some frozen drinks, such as smoothies and such (the cold coffees, forget the name) and manned the cash register and served up our coffee of the day....fun, fun... all the while my co-workers trying to figure out what my nickname is going to be, because there is another Lauren and her nick name is Lawrence of Arabia and another girl, Hillary is Hildalgo...etc...you get the picture :). The best part hasn't even come yet, after we work each day we get a free drink of our choice! 20oz hot chocolate come my way! Perfect for the 6min. walk home! especially when it is cold outside and you forgot your gloves, oops!


So going to work wasn't my first time going to Barista's as I spent two hours there previously enjoying conversation with a friend and then spending time in the Word. I don't know if it is the coffee smell or great music that is the reason it is very relaxing to work on homework or writing my book, although if the subject of coffee gets in my book at all blame my job...haha...


One of my fav books, Cool Beans by Erynn Mangum, is about a girl, who is a Barista at a coffee shop and I guess it kind of got me interested in the job or maybe just the fact she found her guy there...mwhaha....just kidding...who knows what God has planned for me....but one can hope! (but this is in no way my intention of working there, i need money bad!)


So I guess what I am saying in this post, Come to Barista's and random thought of the day... Trust in the Lord, which I am now going to do everyday. I may stumble, I may fall, but my Lord Jesus will pick me back up and heal my scrapes.


Love ya all!

(subliminal message (go to baristas)) haha