The Spiritual Wilderness

The Spiritual Wilderness
Quote of article, a benediction:

The Holy Three encircle you
The Saving Three release you
The Eternal Three keep you
May the loving Three caress you and work in you,
In your loved one,
In your dark,
In your day,
In your pain,
In your seeing,
In your blindness,
In your journey,
In your busyness,
In eternity.

Amen.

Why Wilderness?

Why Wilderness?

A Table in the Wilderness?

Can God Spread a Table in the Wilderness?
Sermon by John Piper November 22, 1981

Another Wilderness Perspective

I found an interesting article which involves/discusses the wilderness experience as a result of becoming a Christian (or even re-dedicating one's self). I found this a welcome reminder that sometimes the wilderness experience can be a result of a positive lifestyle change as well as resulting from a place of barrenness in our physical and spiritual life which is a symptom of sin.

http://www.christian-faith.com/forjesus/wilderness-experience

And another link with yet another perspective:

http://www.peterhessbooks.com/newsletter/downloads/Vol-2-No-8.pdf

Life in the Wilderness

Just doing some camera "doodling."

Interesting discovery

Interesting tidbit of information: In Hebrew (the Torah), Leviticus is titled Vayikra (“and God called”) and Numbers is Bemidbar (“in the Wilderness”)--much more descriptive titles than our English ones.

Never Waste Your Pain

Never Waste Your Pain

Dear Lord...
Please grant that I shall
Never waste my pain; for...
To fail without learning,
To fall without getting up,
To sin without overcoming,
To be hurt without forgiving,
To be discontent without improving,
To be crushed without becoming more caring,
To suffer without growing more sensitive,
Makes of suffering a senseless, futile exercise,
A tragic loss,
And of pain,
The greatest waste of all.

-- Dick Innes

I found this poem in a random google search on Hosea 2:14. I found it interesting that the poem was in a sermon preached on my birthday six years ago, since I've taken this verse as my "own".

Sermon on Hosea 2:14 By: Rev. Adrian Dieleman. This sermon was preached on April 28, 2002

www.trinitycrc.org/sermons/hosea02v14.html