stinkin amazing cs lewis quote on love

"Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and probably broken.
Don't love, and lock your heart up in a casket of selfishness.
Make sure you make yourself vulnerable to no one.
But in that casket, dark and motionless, it will change.
Your heart will not become broken but unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
The only place safe from the tragedy of a broken heart is hell. Where nobody gives their heart to anyone."

Bam. CS Lewis, you're amazing. I so much agree with this quote I don't even know what else to say about it but I'm so glad that my heart is wrung rather than being locked up in a casket right now and that is only because of God's grace.

Ask yourself daily

My brother and his wife are off for a three year expedition to The University of Durham about two hours NE of London.  Nathan will get his PhD in theology and will be studying the life and ministry of Puritan John Flavel who wrote an incredible book entitled, "Keeping The Heart". As we helped them clean and box up their home I saw a quote which was printed over the door from his study, "Oh my heart, where hast thou gone this day, and what has engaged thy thoughts?"  The heart truly is the wellspring from which every other thing flows. How revealing just one day would be to keep this on the forefront of the mind. So much to notice about my heart's condition and my need to be saved from even my own thoughts. I can't produce within myself a change. This takes me back to Jesus, and I do know that THAT is a good thing.

Torn from the top of an order of worship 11/24/04

"Feelings are great liars. If Christians only worshiped when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship that went on. Feelings are important in many areas, but completely unreliable in matters of faith...We think that if we don't feel something there can be no authenticity in doing it. But the wisdom of God says something different, namely, that we can act ourselves into a new way of feeling much quicker than we can feel ourselves into a new way of acting. Worship is an act which develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God which is expressed in an act of worship. When we obey the command to praise God in worship, our deep, essential need to be in relationship with God is nurtured."