Like frozen water
Pain makes it harder to flow
While underneath the water is moving
Stiffness is visible
Mudflows move slowly
Too much stuff slows you down
To move quick and smooth
Get Clean and Clear
Dams control Water
Only a trickle until it busts
Clear the heart Channel
Let the Love escape
Heat makes water rise
Vapors ascend to the sky
Don’t despise the Kiln of Trials
You end up in heaven
Phil Yadon
March 18, 2010
Charlie Moses Yadon, Grace (Yadon) Wiens, Charles Haskell Yadon. These are some of the greatest people I have ever known. I love them and miss Dad and Uncle Haskell. I still love talking with my Aunt Grace on the phone. Their words and lives echo in my heart daily. I hope to be a Man of God that they would be proud of. They look so much alike with those cute mouths and chins.
“Stop rehearsing your past and give it to the Lord. He's the wall-toppling, communication-restoring, esteem-building healer of broken hearts and relationships. If you let Him, He will help you to live and love again.” -- Bob Gass
'There is tremendous relief in knowing that God's love for me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst in me. No discovery can disillusion Him in the way I'm often so disillusioned about myself, or quench His determination to bless me. There is great cause for humility in the thought that He sees all the twisted things about me that others don't see. Indeed, He sees more corruption in me than I see in myself. Yet He wants to be my friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His son to die for me in order for me to realize this purpose.'
JI Packer “Knowing God”
'Let all those who… put their trust in You rejoice… because You… defend them; let those also who love Your name… be in high spirits' (Psalm 5:11 AMP)
'The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms; He will thrust out the enemy from before you… ' (Deuteronomy 33:27 NKJV)
'The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him' (Nahum 1:7 KJV)
'Fear not… for I am with you… I will strengthen and harden you to difficulties, yes, I will help you… I will hold you up… with My [victorious] right hand… ' (Isaiah 41:10 AMP)
'You protect them by your presence from what people plan against them. You shelter them from evil' (Psalm 31:20 NCV)
'Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will live in the house of the Lord forever' (Psalm 23:6 NLT)
'… The Lord stood at my side and gave me strength… The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom… ' (2 Timothy 4:17-18 NIV)
'Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you' (Psalm 9:10 NIV)
'This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness' (Lamentations 3:21-23 NKJV)
'I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety' (Psalm 4:8 NIV).
'Because you have made the Lord… your dwelling place, no evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling; for He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways' (Psalm 91:9-11 NKJV)
'The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them' (Psalm 34:7 NIV)
'… I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed' (Psalm 57:1 NIV)
'The Lord is close to the broken-hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit' (Psalm 34:18 NIV)
'… the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer… ' (1 Peter 3:12 NIV)
'He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me… he rescued me because he delighted in me' (Psalm 18:16-19 NIV)
'Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light' (Micah 7:8 NIV)
'You will have courage because you will have hope. You will take your time, and rest in safety. You will lie down unafraid and many will look to you for help' (Job 11:18-19 TLB)
'Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us' (Ephesians 3:20 NIV).
As I was driving into work this morning God filled the eastern sky with a fiery display of His Glory as His sun crested above the horizon. Clouds for hundreds of miles were ignited into blazing red and orange flames. My thought was, may the Spirit of God crest above the horizon in our lives and ignite each of our worlds with beautiful colors. “He must increase, but I must decrease”.
If life seems dull gray, wake up, eat breakfast, go to work, eat dinner, and watch TV, plop in bed, wake up and repeat…then a sunrise is called for. Let the Spirit of God bring new color and perspective to your life TODAY. The way to get rid of darkness is not by removing it by the bucketful, but by opening the curtains and letting the light in. Let’s open our hearts today and let a magnificent sunrise of the Spirit of God take place.
My Cousin Norm Rutzen sent me this text today:
“While sliding down the banister of this new year. May never the splinters point the wrong direction!”
Ouch and Amen to that! Thanks Norm!
That reminds me of a little story:
Last summer my youngest son, Chase, spent a week at Camp Allendale in southern Indiana. On the second day of camp he slide down a split rail fence and got a splinter in his butt. He went to the camp nurse, but she couldn’t see anything and gave him some Tylenol. He went back to the nurse everyday for more Tylenol. (we didn’t know about this until he got home). The next Sunday after he got home I was putting him to bed and picked him up and threw him on the bed. He winced in pain. To make a long story short, He ended up having surgery under general anesthesia to remove a 5” splinter. Now he has an awesome 6” scar that he can’t show to anyone.
