I will offer. I will praise.

To my most faithful enemies who found me tonight during the walk home - Bitterness, Resentment, Self-Pity, Pride, Cynicism, Despair:

What Much-Afraid was shouting up there on the old sea wall was this:

"And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about; therefore I will sing praises unto the Lord; yea I will offer the sacrifice of joy and will praise the Name of the Lord"

As she sang she thought to herself, "It must be really dreadful to be the Shepherd's enemies. Always, always to find themselves frustrated. Always, always to have their prey snatched away. How simply maddening it must be to see even the silliest little weaklings set up out of reach on the High Places and made to triumph over all their enemies. It must be unbearable.

Yea I will offer the sacrifice of joy and will praise the Name of the Lord.

and i'm learning that in dying, you really start to live

that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

moral excellence

“It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.”

Steven R. Covey

"For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love...
For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."

2 Peter 1, NASB

"For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue..."

2 Peter 1, ESV

Lead me in the way everlasting...
It's time to grow up.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Bob Dylan

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is dong its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to light the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e.e. cummings

My heart rejoices in the LORD;
In the LORD my horn is lifted high
My mouth boasts over my enemies
For I delight in your deliverance

There is no one holy like the LORD
There is no one besides you
There is no Rock like our God