It's not easy, being Wee

The tiny circle of friends who read this blog have all created their own "Wee Me's," and have exerted their influence on me. I've never been small, so I thought I'd give it a try. Is it (wee) me?

I have to admit, I was rather disappointed in Wee World's minimal eye-color selection. Where is the hazel section, people?! Ah, well. Have fun making your own.

The Ugly Step-sister of the Bible?

When I was little, I went to a babysitter 3 days out of the week. My babysitter became a close family friend, and she had a little girl of her own. Her little girl was 3 years younger than me, and normally, we would play together very nicely. However, one of the memories we both share is of our playing "Cinderella" by acting it out while watching the Rodgers & Hammerstein's version of the tale (I still remember some of those songs!). There was a host of characters available to play, but we of course BOTH wanted to be the lead, the beautiful and desired Cinderella. Even though she was younger, somehow she always won the role, and I was granted the MULTIPLE roles of the two ugly step-sisters and occasionally the wicked step-mother, too.
We laugh about it now, but those memories resurfaced recently when I read this article. I hated playing the less desireable parts, I didn't want to even pretend to be detestable. But instead of turning the movie off, instead of just "not watching," I was hopeful that maybe this time I would get to be Cinderella... maybe this time I would be desired. I didn't care about the girls I played with, or the characters on the movie - I only cared about what the Prince thought, what He saw in me.
I hope that's true of me now. I don't care if Leah had weak eyes and was the uglier of the sisters on this earth... her eternal beauty was captivating.

Blood is Thicker than Water

I'm just thinking a lot about this passage of Romans (8:15-17):

For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a Spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, " Abba! Father!" The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

I really want that to be true in my life and in the lives of my loved ones and for the entire Kingdom of God. And it IS true, already, but we aren't really living up to it. I'm not really living in the constant joy of the realization that I am not "on my own" anymore - I'm an adopted daughter of the ONLY King. What's more, I'm His heir, along with Christ, who suffered and died for me to become a part of the family. It's getting deeper, I know...

Maybe more later.

God really IS our Only Hope

This is something that the Lord has been impressing upon me more & more as I look for answers to all kinds of situations: (in alpha-order) abandonment, anxiety, betrayal, contamination, corruption, criminality, debasement, debauchery, degradation, depravity, evil, iniquity, injustice, perversion, sensuality, sinfulness, vice, wickedness.
No manmade program, institution, establishment, foundation, or wisdom can solve the world's problems. Period.
ONLY God's love is big enough for this world's fallenness, only Jesus' blood is deep enough and powerful enough to cleanse humanity. Only the glory of the one True God is great enough to call us to holiness through relationship.

Switchfoot has a new song (called "Oh Gravity" /album released 12.26.06) posted on their MySpace that speaks a little to this. Check it out here. It pumps me up, love that crazy pounding piano.

redirection

What do you think of this?
And this related item?


It kind of pumps me up to continue working on my obedience, if nothing else. Seek first the Kingdom...