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Whole being
When is it that people want to give up on life, it is when their whole being is absorbed by self. Self must be satisfied at all cost even to point of premature death. Sickening to think that we will willingly…
Created about 1 month ago
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Empty Pockets
I sit with tears in my eyes wondering why they are there. I have been sad for days, overwhelming sadness. I can't pin it to one specific thing, like I can with the joy on my wedding day or the day my…
Created about 1 month ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2012-04-01
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Wrists
On my left wrist I have tattooed the Hebrew word for truth (Emet). On my right wrist I have the Greek word for Grace( Charis). My wife and have the identical tattoos and we took it from John 1:17. Jesus…
Created 3 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2012-01-22
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I am yours
Today is my 43rd birthday and I am in the dark, my wife is sleeping next to me on my left oblivious of my emotion right now. My old dog to my right. My daughter fast asleep dreaming of tomorrow. The fish…
Created 4 months ago
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Remember
Ecclesiastes 12:1 (NIV)
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them"—Created 6 months ago
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Ecclesiastes 11:9
Ecclesiastes 11:9 (NIV)
You who are young, be happy while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.Created 6 months ago
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Ecclesiastes 8:17
Ecclesiastes 8:17 (NIV)
then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.Created 6 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks
2011-12-12
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Fear God
Ecclesiastes 8:12 (NIV)
Although a wicked person who commits a hundred crimes may live a long time, I know that it will go better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.Created 6 months ago
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Ecclesiastes 2:26
Ecclesiastes 2:26 (NIV)
To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.Created 6 months ago
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Store
Ecclesiastes 2:26 (NIV)
To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.Created 6 months ago
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Ecclesiastes 7:13, Ecclesiastes 7:29
Ecclesiastes 7:13 (NIV)
Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked?Ecclesiastes 7:29 (NIV)
This only have I found: God created mankind upright, but they have gone in search of many schemes."Created 6 months ago
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Psalm 139:16
Psalm 139:16 (NIV)
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.Created 7 months ago
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Daddy
I buried my dad today, he was 66. His name was Wayne Reynolds. He had a heart attack I am still shocked and numb. I read psalm 139 at his grave side. I read it because it shows me how much God loves us,…
Created 7 months ago
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undying
Undying love, what does it look like? We do not have a measure here on earth to describe it. I dance around it and call it love but it always falls way short. I put too much in front of it or put way…
Created 9 months ago
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Really
I am sitting here with the lights off, a snoring dog to my right and my wife to my left. I feel utterly alone. Can it really be this bad, can the pain be this significant. I am stunned at the magnitude…
Created 9 months ago
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Bent Down
How is it in this world of turmoil and pain does love shines so bright, in that a wayward people can still be cared for. To think that the God of the universe would bend down for anyone is foreign to…
Created 10 months ago
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Dirty
I spent most of my life searching for something I never had. I always wanted a good, simple and pure life. Instead I sought after things that hurt me and others. I think back on how stupid I was to put…
Created 10 months ago
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Psalm 104:8
Psalm 104:8 (NIV)
they flowed over the mountains, they went down into the valleys, to the place you assigned for them.Created 11 months ago
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Pit
This is my favorite verse in the entire bible, because it speaks of a man who lived most of his life buried in the mire of my own choices. The man who saw a hand reaching for him from the light to save…
Created 11 months ago
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Suffering
I have felt suffering emotionally sometimes beyond what I feel is capable for a person to stand. This verse showed me that God does bring good out of bad, it is His good, not ours. Our good is marred…
Created 11 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-05-17
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Psalm 4:8
Psalm 4:8 (NIV)
In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, lord, make me dwell in safety.Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-05-17
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-05-10
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Psalm 3:2
Psalm 3:2 (NIV)
Many are saying of me, "God will not deliver him."Created about 1 year ago
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Psalm 3:3
Psalm 3:3 (NIV)
But you, lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high.Created about 1 year ago
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Psalm 3:4
Psalm 3:4 (NIV)
I call out to the lord, and he answers me from his holy mountain.Created about 1 year ago
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