Introspection alert!!! I've been collecting things I found interesting around the world wide web this week...and now that they're all together, I wonder why I am feeling so introspective this week? Perhaps it's the horror going on in Japan, that I am searching my heart this week. We have been blessed with SO MUCH--I have been blessed...why is it never enough? I want it to be enough.
I actually found this video as I was reading a wonderful post on the hilarious blog Mama Kat's Losin' It about entitlement. What started out as funny, ended up making me think about the many ways I feel entitled every stinking day.
Along the introspective theme, Shauna Niequist writes about giving up negative words for Lent. Her thoughts on the power of words just resonated with me. She writes about her progress here, as well. I need to read this at least once-a-week to keep that idea fresh in front of me: "...The power of my words, especially the power to hurt and break down."
Shauna also quotes the end of James 3. I need to tape these words to my bathroom mirror:
"Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water."
Speaking of the power of words... Have you seen the video of the Kimyal people receiving Bibles in their language FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER??? I wonder if it is the first book in their language? Honestly, I have no idea. Either way, their gratitude and emotion sure made me think about the way I treat God's Word in my life. Wow.
If you don't have time to watch the entire 10 minutes, be sure to start watching at 2:50, when the people are handed the Bibles. Try to imagine that moment--when they first held their Bibles in their hands. Watch the man on the left begin to weep, at the thought of receiving God's word in his language...
Happy weekend, good people!
