Journey of Desire
Yo, yo, and hello to everyone! As promised, I am prepared to blog about the books I am reading about now. First, about Journey of Desire. I've read the first two chapters in this book. Chapter one is called Our Heart's Deepest Secret. This chapter talks about too many times things don't pan out the way we thought they should. Our desires don't happen for whatever reason. And too many times we abondon our desires. This chapter says our desires don't die, no matter how many times we try to berry (spelling error?) them. They always resurface along the way. We may try to forget about our desires, but our desires have a way of never forgetting about us. And what about people who are rude and mean to us, and cut us off on the highways, and such. Eldridge suggests they are venting their frustrations that nothing in life has turned out right, and they want someone to pay. Just one more way our desires come out.
Chapter Two is called The Dilemma of Desire. This is about the concept of our desires haunting us. Sometimes we open ourselves up to other people for validation of pursueing our desires or something. And when we do, we get hurt. We want to find a lover, and be loved in return. We open ourselves up to a person we love in hopes of being loved back, and we get hurt over and over again. Here's a great quote from James Houston, "Despair is the fate of the desiring soul". And one from the Bible "Hope deferred makes the heart sick ..." (Proverbs 13:12 NLT). And one more, " We all know the dilemma of desire, how aweful it feels to open our hearts to joy, only to have grief come in. They go together. We know that. What we don't know is what to do with it, how to live in this world with desire so deep in us and disappointment lurking behind every corner. After we've taken a few arrows, dare we even desire?"Just like in Visioneering, we see the way things are and we want to change that. We can see a different world with the eyes of faith (a vision and desire). Then we come up with a strategy of how to change what is into what could and should be. And soon that will be what is now. The problem, however, is that if we abandon our vision and desire after being sidetracked, we settle for is and just accept it. Then a part of us dies. But that part seems to come alive again when the desire is awakened againe. More on this book tomorrow.
Actually, I'll stop there for today. I'll write about three chapters of Risk tomorrow and then the next day do a chapter about Journey of Desire and we'll all be caught up.
God bless you all in Jesus' name today and everyday!
Zack
ps. My mom decided not to go to Cameroun afterall. Please pray for my Dad and Jim Corner as they teach in this seminar. They are teaching a church leaders's seminar for the church leaders in Cameroun. My mom was going to teach the ladies about teaching childrens classes. And pray especially for my mom. She's really heart broken about it. She was so looking forward to going. She was also excited about doing this with Dad. They really hate being a part like this. So please pray for both of them in their time of seperation. Thanks everyone! God bless!
Chapter Two is called The Dilemma of Desire. This is about the concept of our desires haunting us. Sometimes we open ourselves up to other people for validation of pursueing our desires or something. And when we do, we get hurt. We want to find a lover, and be loved in return. We open ourselves up to a person we love in hopes of being loved back, and we get hurt over and over again. Here's a great quote from James Houston, "Despair is the fate of the desiring soul". And one from the Bible "Hope deferred makes the heart sick ..." (Proverbs 13:12 NLT). And one more, " We all know the dilemma of desire, how aweful it feels to open our hearts to joy, only to have grief come in. They go together. We know that. What we don't know is what to do with it, how to live in this world with desire so deep in us and disappointment lurking behind every corner. After we've taken a few arrows, dare we even desire?"Just like in Visioneering, we see the way things are and we want to change that. We can see a different world with the eyes of faith (a vision and desire). Then we come up with a strategy of how to change what is into what could and should be. And soon that will be what is now. The problem, however, is that if we abandon our vision and desire after being sidetracked, we settle for is and just accept it. Then a part of us dies. But that part seems to come alive again when the desire is awakened againe. More on this book tomorrow.
Actually, I'll stop there for today. I'll write about three chapters of Risk tomorrow and then the next day do a chapter about Journey of Desire and we'll all be caught up.
God bless you all in Jesus' name today and everyday!
Zack
ps. My mom decided not to go to Cameroun afterall. Please pray for my Dad and Jim Corner as they teach in this seminar. They are teaching a church leaders's seminar for the church leaders in Cameroun. My mom was going to teach the ladies about teaching childrens classes. And pray especially for my mom. She's really heart broken about it. She was so looking forward to going. She was also excited about doing this with Dad. They really hate being a part like this. So please pray for both of them in their time of seperation. Thanks everyone! God bless!
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