Still Blogging.

Hi there. I haven't abandoned the act of blogging. I'm still finishing up some thoughts on the blog I kept this summer in Germany. If you'd like to check it out, you can find it here. I will return to blogging on the Logos site soon.

--Derik

brokenness

I'm trying to write a blog about the journey God has me on, and that will be up here soon, but in the mean time, know the journey has involved a good deal of brokenness, and it's been hard letting go of all the illusions of control I had built for myself. There's a blog I like to read called To Write Love on Her Arms. I often head there when I'm discouraged or weary. These quotes were there:

You can't control what breaks, but you can control the kind of person you're becoming. Hard hearts that transform into hearts that beat for the things that God's heart beats for.

We control our response.

It is easy to say, "Life could have been so much easier... Life could have been so much better." We look back and see a straighter path, but the truth is that we are shaped in the places where our path twists and turns. We are shaped in the long journey. There are no guarantees from God, except that He will go with us.

Who have you been trying to control? It is time to surrender that person.

Do you live with untold anxiety? Are you waiting for the 6-month plan?

All we get is today. God is with us on this journey. Always.

Let go.

Jesus says 'Follow me' and He doesn't say much more.

May you be okay with the journey. May you identify, with the spirit of God leading you, what you can control and what you can't. May you surrender what you cannot control to the God of the universe.

I fully realize that the purpose of this blog is to catalog our own journeys in our own words. Just the same, these words were a huge encouragement to me, and I wanted to share them with ya'll. I can attest to their truth; God has been teaching me that He is enough for me, and He has been teaching me that by stripping away many of people and things I've held near and dear. It's been painful, but ultimately good.

I trust Him more now; and at the same time, I have so much more to learn. Surrender is so hard.