Father Abraham...

i often wonder about Abraham... i mean, how did he do it? How could he leave EVERYTHING and go off into the unknown. The unknown makes me want to scream and hide under my covers. But he went...

What did he think when God said, "You see all those stars? Your family is going to be bigger than that!" He probably felt the same way i sometimes do about the promises of God. "God, i believe you because - you're God! But... i don't see how that could possibly happen!" To think that he walked through the rest of his life walking in that unknown - walking with a promise unfulfilled, yet intact! I don't think I could do that...

But what will happen when we get to heaven and God says, "Abraham, Abraham... come up here. I want you to see something." Abraham joins his Father, his Creator, his Delight on his throne. And Father says, "Abraham -- look at your family now." Every Jew, every Old-Testament believer, every Christian all gathered in heaven - all the descendants of the one who had a glimpse of the Father-heart of God. A dream fulfilled!

"Not one of these people, even though their lives were exemplary, got their hands on what ws promised. God had a better plan for us: that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours."

Rosie Hardy

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Introduction

So, i've been given these thoughts. i don't know exactly what to do with them or how to express them. i'm not very fond of my own writing... i think it's because i've read so many beautiful things - i know what i want writing to sound like (and i fall short of that). 

But i've been encouraged to write. to get my thoughts out. so i thought i would allow some to leak out here. 

I guess i have a few reasons for creating a blog right now. well, to begin with, i have a tendency to waste time on-line. i deactivated my facebook because of it. but i think this is different. i think this is constructive. but it will also provide some of the outlet i enjoyed on facebook...

Another reason for this little blog is that i am losing a piece of my best friend. in just a matter of days, she will exchange vows with one of the most amazing men on earth and go to start a life with him... but i will lose all the time i had to just talk with her. to tell her about my class or a funny scenario on the bus or how i felt at work. i won't be able to go out to the kitchen and ask her advice on what i'm experiencing. so this blog will help me recover some of that... words help me process things - and this will be where i'll place the words that don't seem to have any other home. 

i hope you enjoy...