Just a few quotes from My Utmost for HIS Highest

"If God made your cup sweet, drink it with grace"

My cup is overflowing. So much to be thankful for Jess. New insights. New paradigms reached. Humbling moments. REAL moments. Loud silence. Cathartic tears. United fronts. Venting sessions. Poetic inspirations. Purfied intentions. Hope restored.

"If He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him"

seems like so many of my loved ones have quite a CROSS to carry:

Laid to rest. Moments of darkness. Broken hearts. Hope lost. Tests of faith. Stolen possessions. Drama, drama, drama. Tests of character. I lift up all my fam, bros and sis whose cups are bitter at the moment. I know that with each passing day, Jess, you wiil carry them or use me to help them carry it.

"If you are not living in touch with Him, it is easy to pass a crude verdict on God. You must go through the crucible before you have any right to pronounce a verdict on God, because in the crucible you learn to KNOW God better."

Funny those who haven't walked the walk can sure talk the talk. THEY don't even know and they dont understand. It's alwasy SO easy to pass judgements...to sit from afar and critique. But sometimes what one doesn't realize, it that the intention was always pure to begin with. But someone will always find a way to see the bad. But I hope to make the sincerest attempt to see the good in EVERYBODY. So rest assured my friends, in the end all that will matter is what your true attentions were. In the end, its really only YOU and HIM. Be true to yourself.

dedicated to the ones carrying the cross of servant leadership. its a living ministry. +BiL