I really should have gone to sleep hours ago.

I'm really tired, but not tired enough to sleep by myself. Jake is out with James, who leaves for Iraq tomorrow. I thought that was a pretty good reason for stealing my husband.

My brain was sort of half working today, until I popped one of the two ibuprofen I will take this year. That stuff is magic, I tell ya. I feel like I need to write something in here, seeing as my brain has been slightly revived. Why is it so much easier to think deep thoughts at night? Is is because you know you'll be able to rest your brain right after you think them, so it's okay to wear it out?

I read a lot of blogs of people who have adopted or are adopting. The more I read, the more my heart yearns to be a part of it. Adoption IS the gospel! I had a wise friend say to me about a year ago that if we are trying to get women to stop killing their children, we had darn well be ready to adopt them! That hit me really hard. I've always had a heart for adoption, I think, but the more children that are killed every day (thanks, current administration, for your hypocritical views on the sanctity of life, btw) the more I feel called to adopt. I absolutely LOVE being a mother, I cannot put into words what a great joy it has been and the love I have for my beautiful son. I know that adoption is a lot different from birthing a child in many ways, but I don't value one more than the other. Are we all not children of God? Does a different genetic code make a child any less mine, if I have adopted him? (Many members of my family think that this is true.) I just want to raise up Godly children who will serve the Lord in Grace & Truth!

The only hope innocent lives have is God working in us, as a body of believers, to bring about a culture of adoption. If you are not considering adoption, I pray that you will reconsider. Remember, we are all adopted into the family of God. (It's certainly not in our bloodline... we are such wicked creatures!)

Well, that's all... I was just thinking and praying about that this evening. Protect Life. Support women and men who choose life. DO SOMETHING!

"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world."
(James 1:22-25, 27)

Yay for fighter verses!!!

Goodnight.

One of the most pathetic sights in this world

This subject has been weighing on my heart a lot lately.  I am heartbroken for people who are lost, especially those who believe that they are saved, but bear no fruit and do not walk in obedience to the Savior they claim to serve :-(  More of my thoughts may come later, but for now, here's the good stuff.

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"Come unto Me all you who labor and are heavy laden--and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28 

"I will give you rest." What a claim to make! To impart rest of soul to another, lies beyond the power of the most exalted creature. Neither Confucius, Buddha, nor Mohammed ever made such a claim as this! 

As Christ is the only One who can bestow rest of soul--so there is no true rest to be found apart from Him. The creature cannot impart it. The world cannot communicate it. We ourselves cannot, by any efforts of our own, manufacture it. One of the most pathetic sights in this world, is to behold the unregenerate, vainly seeking happiness and contentment in the things of time and sense--and finding that these are all broken cisterns which can hold no water. They are like the poor woman mentioned in Mark 5:26, who "had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better--she grew worse!"

What is the nature of this "rest" which Christ gives to all who truly come to Him? It is a spiritual rest, a satisfying rest, "rest for the soul" as the Savior declares later in this passage. It is such a rest as this world can neither give--nor take away.

It is a rest from that vain and wearisome quest, which engages and absorbs the sinner, before the Spirit of God opens his eyes to see his folly--and moves him to seek after the true riches. It is indeed pitiful--to behold those who are made for eternity--wasting their time and energies wandering from object to object, searching for that which cannot satisfy them--only to be vexed by repeated and incessant disappointments. And thus it is with all--until they come to Christ, for He has written over all the pursuits and pleasures of this world, "Whoever drinks of this water--shall thirst again!" (John 4:13)

Forcibly was that fact exemplified by the case of Solomon, who was provided with everything which the carnal heart could desire, and who gratified his lusts to the full, only to find that, "Behold, all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind!" (Eccl. 1:14). It is from this vexation of spirit, that Christ delivers His people, for He declares "whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him--shall never thirst!" (John 4:14)

(Arthur Pink, "The Rest of Christ")