Princess's teacher sent this to me just now in my email. It is so precious. It reminded me about one of my big lessons of 2008 and that was to learn to see past some huge differences I may have with people and appreciate them for who they are. It takes a few minutes to get rolling.
pause the music first in the side bar.
oh, and if the video does not work here, use this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBtFTF2ii7U
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Saturday, December 20, 2008
It Does Not Get Better Than This
My honey got this for me for my birthday. Oh, what a absolutely lovely album. I'm a Loreena McKennit fan anyway but I have really been enjoying this very Celtic spin on Christmas.
This is my favorite but it's hard to pick one! The whole album is wonderful.
Good King Wenceslas
Good King Wenceslas looked out
On the feast of Stephen
When the snow lay round about
Deep and crisp and even
Brightly shone the moon that night
Though the frost was cruel
When a poor man came in sight
Gath'ring winter fuel
"Hither, page, and stand by me
If thou know'st it, telling
Yonder peasant, who is he?
Where and what his dwelling?"
"Sire, he lives a good league hence
Underneath the mountain
Right against the forest fence
By Saint Agnes' fountain."
"Bring me flesh and bring me wine
Bring me pine logs hither
Thou and I will see him dine
When we bear him thither."
Page and monarch forth they went
Forth they went together
Through the rude wind's wild lament
And the bitter weather
"Sire, the night is darker now
And the wind blows stronger
Fails my heart, I know not how,
I can go no longer."
"Mark my footsteps, my good page
Tread thou in them boldly
Thou shalt find the winter's rage
Freeze thy blood less coldly."
In his master's steps he trod
Where the snow lay dinted
Heat was in the very sod
Which the Saint had printed
Therefore, Christian men, be sure
Wealth or rank possessing
Ye who now will bless the poor
Shall yourselves find blessing
Here is a great sample of each song. The album is called "A Midwinter Night's Dream"
Saturday, September 27, 2008
All I Can Say Is "Amen!" and Weep
9/27/08
Many of you know my dad died at the age of 54 on May 17th, 2007. His cancer came like a sharp turn around a very dark corner. It was scattered like pebbles throughout his whole abdomen and had taken over his stomach so that no food would go through. He in essence starved to death. He looked just like one of the pictures you see of the holocaust. I will never forget in the last few days helping my mom adjust his hips on his bed as he was unable to even come alert enough to look at us, let alone adjust himself. All I could feel was skeleton, it was so awful. He was in complete need of help. It was the darkest part of my life yet in a human sense. Everything I had every known to be a reality seemed to be turned upside down and entirely askew. My pain was still nothing like that of a parent who has lost a child I am sure, or a wife who has lost the love of her life (though it was for sure that for my mother), or the starving child walking in the dust of an African street. We Americans are truly numb to pain in a lot of ways. We won't even camp in many cases because of the discomfort of being away from our pampering daily comforts. Our kids won't eat (well, mine will because I don't give into this and I know many of you who won't either) eat their food because it's not what they would really like to eat. We want our home, and our picket fence and lovely dress for Sunday service. Mind you, all of these things are good gifts from God but they are not the treasure of our lives. "My heart and my flesh mail fail". To actually be in a place of seeing a persons flesh fail piece by piece, you see that verse forever differently.
Even what I went through with my dad taught me that God was not interested in my prosperity in the temporal sense. He was however, deeply invested in the prosperity of my soul. He took what the world would see as something dreadful, absolute loss, and turned it into a treasure in my soul that can not be touched by circumstance. With that behind me, this video brought me to absolute tears because it goes right to that place in my soul that I now understand. The place of absolute pain. Pain that feels like fear as C.S. Lewis so insightfully points out. The place where the world seems to completely freeze around you like one of those commercials where everything is suddenly still, only in this seen you are in the middle and you are falling on your knees in utter helplessness. You turn your face to the sky and scream at the top of your lungs "NOOOOOOO!!!!!!" You have nothing in that moment. No house, no savings account, no special outing this weekend to look forward to, no comfort of a friend, no candle you can light to pray and feel better.....nothing. Yet, you have Christ. You have the treasure of Him and the promise of His purchased gift to you, redemption. With that redemption is given to you the strongest power a man can know, the power of peace without understanding. The power that comes over you when all is humanly stripped away. The power of resting in the hands of a Living God and knowing with every fiber of your being, every pulse in your veins, every breath that you take in and out, that he is able to be trusted. That He holds you, and that He will indeed fulfill His ultimate glory and you have been lovingly purchased through great expense to himself, to reap the amazing reward of that of that ultimate glory.
This video is shockingly profound, it is not meant to tickle your ears. For me, I have found it to be so true that it reaches down and pulls back out that moment n my life when I was screaming out and the world had stopped. When I was there, God used the writings and insights of three men in particular to speak to my heart. Randy Alcorn, C.S. Lewis, and John Piper. Have you been there? That is a worthy testimony, that is the victory of your salvation, the glory of the gospel. That when your very heart and your flesh fail, the Lord is your treasure and HE IS ENOUGH!
John Piper is speaking:
Many of you know my dad died at the age of 54 on May 17th, 2007. His cancer came like a sharp turn around a very dark corner. It was scattered like pebbles throughout his whole abdomen and had taken over his stomach so that no food would go through. He in essence starved to death. He looked just like one of the pictures you see of the holocaust. I will never forget in the last few days helping my mom adjust his hips on his bed as he was unable to even come alert enough to look at us, let alone adjust himself. All I could feel was skeleton, it was so awful. He was in complete need of help. It was the darkest part of my life yet in a human sense. Everything I had every known to be a reality seemed to be turned upside down and entirely askew. My pain was still nothing like that of a parent who has lost a child I am sure, or a wife who has lost the love of her life (though it was for sure that for my mother), or the starving child walking in the dust of an African street. We Americans are truly numb to pain in a lot of ways. We won't even camp in many cases because of the discomfort of being away from our pampering daily comforts. Our kids won't eat (well, mine will because I don't give into this and I know many of you who won't either) eat their food because it's not what they would really like to eat. We want our home, and our picket fence and lovely dress for Sunday service. Mind you, all of these things are good gifts from God but they are not the treasure of our lives. "My heart and my flesh mail fail". To actually be in a place of seeing a persons flesh fail piece by piece, you see that verse forever differently.
Even what I went through with my dad taught me that God was not interested in my prosperity in the temporal sense. He was however, deeply invested in the prosperity of my soul. He took what the world would see as something dreadful, absolute loss, and turned it into a treasure in my soul that can not be touched by circumstance. With that behind me, this video brought me to absolute tears because it goes right to that place in my soul that I now understand. The place of absolute pain. Pain that feels like fear as C.S. Lewis so insightfully points out. The place where the world seems to completely freeze around you like one of those commercials where everything is suddenly still, only in this seen you are in the middle and you are falling on your knees in utter helplessness. You turn your face to the sky and scream at the top of your lungs "NOOOOOOO!!!!!!" You have nothing in that moment. No house, no savings account, no special outing this weekend to look forward to, no comfort of a friend, no candle you can light to pray and feel better.....nothing. Yet, you have Christ. You have the treasure of Him and the promise of His purchased gift to you, redemption. With that redemption is given to you the strongest power a man can know, the power of peace without understanding. The power that comes over you when all is humanly stripped away. The power of resting in the hands of a Living God and knowing with every fiber of your being, every pulse in your veins, every breath that you take in and out, that he is able to be trusted. That He holds you, and that He will indeed fulfill His ultimate glory and you have been lovingly purchased through great expense to himself, to reap the amazing reward of that of that ultimate glory.
This video is shockingly profound, it is not meant to tickle your ears. For me, I have found it to be so true that it reaches down and pulls back out that moment n my life when I was screaming out and the world had stopped. When I was there, God used the writings and insights of three men in particular to speak to my heart. Randy Alcorn, C.S. Lewis, and John Piper. Have you been there? That is a worthy testimony, that is the victory of your salvation, the glory of the gospel. That when your very heart and your flesh fail, the Lord is your treasure and HE IS ENOUGH!
John Piper is speaking:
Saturday, May 3, 2008
More Jane Eyre Thoughts
I just finished part 2 of The Master Piece Theater version of Jane Eyre. It was absolutely excellent. There was one scene where I found acting a little forced but the only reason I noticed it is because it is one of the most passionate scenes in the book and Timothy Dalton played it so well in the BBC version. It was not bad, but it did not rise to the occasion of the novel. It was the scene where Mr. Rochester speaks of his coming wedding (he is not telling Jane that he means his wedding to her, but allows her to think he speaks of his intentions for Miss Ingram), until Jane is unable to be tormented no longer. I WILL say, that this actress of Jane played the scene in excellence! She is an awkwardly plain and yet beautiful actress. She makes a very good Jane in the scene that she captures more the heart of Jane from the book more than the BBC Jane. She has more passion and humor which I remember feeling from the book but which was totally lacking in my favorite version of the movie.
I would not say I like this one more, I like the Timothy Dalton one for it's own reasons. However, I will say that I like it equally and that is saying something. On that note, I have noticed that there was a new version made into movie in the past few years. I will have to check it out.
Nothing beats the book, so read it first.
Every time I read or watch the story of Jane Eyre my heart is swelling at the end. Like it has been running laps on some emotional treadmill. At times the walk is light, at times your unable to catch your breath your sprinting so fast, and in the end you feel like you have been somewhere far away and are back again. Like you have emotionally traveled and are happily weary.
You Tube is filled with many wonderful music video's of the movie, yet some are also stupid and ridiculous. I really thought this one captured the heart tug of the story. It does not cary on to the happy ending but it gives you a good idea of the movie. Enjoy!
Just a last note of interest....the young Jane Eyre is played by the actress who is Lucy Pevancy on The Cronicles of Narnia. They look amazingly alike she and the older Jane actress.
I would not say I like this one more, I like the Timothy Dalton one for it's own reasons. However, I will say that I like it equally and that is saying something. On that note, I have noticed that there was a new version made into movie in the past few years. I will have to check it out.
Nothing beats the book, so read it first.
Every time I read or watch the story of Jane Eyre my heart is swelling at the end. Like it has been running laps on some emotional treadmill. At times the walk is light, at times your unable to catch your breath your sprinting so fast, and in the end you feel like you have been somewhere far away and are back again. Like you have emotionally traveled and are happily weary.
You Tube is filled with many wonderful music video's of the movie, yet some are also stupid and ridiculous. I really thought this one captured the heart tug of the story. It does not cary on to the happy ending but it gives you a good idea of the movie. Enjoy!
Just a last note of interest....the young Jane Eyre is played by the actress who is Lucy Pevancy on The Cronicles of Narnia. They look amazingly alike she and the older Jane actress.
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