Comments on: Some Perspective. . . http://tedbryant.org/2009/01/some-perspective/ A witness to the adventure I have been given Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:06:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: emily http://tedbryant.org/2009/01/some-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-369 emily Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:35:48 +0000 http://tedbryant.org/?p=1104#comment-369 I really love #7 and #8 because I have truly been able to relate to them both lately. And thanks for posting this! I loved it! Emily Cass <abbr><em>emilys last blog post..<a href="http://emilyannecass.blogspot.com/2008/12/mixed-emotions.html" rel="nofollow">Mixed Emotions...</a></em></abbr> I really love #7 and #8 because I have truly been able to relate to them both lately.

And thanks for posting this! I loved it!

Emily Cass

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]]> By: Ted Bryant http://tedbryant.org/2009/01/some-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-366 Ted Bryant Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:03:04 +0000 http://tedbryant.org/?p=1104#comment-366 Julie - trust me. . . I really enjoy reading your comments, and I feel humbled and grateful that you are willing to take the time to jump in this journey of life with me and my family - funny how, thought there are many miles between us, relationships can still grow through simple things like this ;) Your words and scriptures are great! - obviously a divine appointment for me to digest those words this afternoon - very helpful, thank you for sharing what God placed on your heart!! Julie – trust me. . . I really enjoy reading your comments, and I feel humbled and grateful that you are willing to take the time to jump in this journey of life with me and my family – funny how, thought there are many miles between us, relationships can still grow through simple things like this ;)

Your words and scriptures are great! – obviously a divine appointment for me to digest those words this afternoon – very helpful, thank you for sharing what God placed on your heart!!

]]> By: Julie W. http://tedbryant.org/2009/01/some-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-365 Julie W. Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:34:03 +0000 http://tedbryant.org/?p=1104#comment-365 Ted, you may be tired of my frquent commenting by now, but for some reason certain posts of yours have invoked in me a strong sense to share Scriptures that come to me as I ponder your words. I'm not one to comment much on blogs, either, so it's funny that this keeps happening (weird funny, not ha-ha funny). :) Anyway, I'm not sure if these necessarily apply to the thoughts that you have been dealing with lately, but they popped into my head as I read what you wrote. "'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways' declares the Lord. 'As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.' "'As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do no return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it'" -- Isaiah 55:8-11 "'I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.'" -- Isaiah 42:16 There is an old hymn by William Cowper that describes in a helpful way the paradox of God's moving in this world. I found this to be a good reminder this week as I pondered the "unfairness" of this earthly life. You can find the lyrics at http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/God_Moves_in_a_Mysterious_Way/ Blessings on you, Ted, as you wrestle with these issues. This is one way in which God reveals himself to us, as he did to Jacob so long ago when he spent that long night wrestling with God. And, Jacob was blessed by God through that intense experience, though he also left with a permanent limp that would remind him of the experience for the rest of his life. Quite awesome! Ted, you may be tired of my frquent commenting by now, but for some reason certain posts of yours have invoked in me a strong sense to share Scriptures that come to me as I ponder your words. I’m not one to comment much on blogs, either, so it’s funny that this keeps happening (weird funny, not ha-ha funny). :)

Anyway, I’m not sure if these necessarily apply to the thoughts that you have been dealing with lately, but they popped into my head as I read what you wrote.

“‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways’ declares the Lord. ‘As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.’

“‘As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do no return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it’” — Isaiah 55:8-11

“‘I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.’” — Isaiah 42:16

There is an old hymn by William Cowper that describes in a helpful way the paradox of God’s moving in this world. I found this to be a good reminder this week as I pondered the “unfairness” of this earthly life. You can find the lyrics at http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/God_Moves_in_a_Mysterious_Way/

Blessings on you, Ted, as you wrestle with these issues. This is one way in which God reveals himself to us, as he did to Jacob so long ago when he spent that long night wrestling with God. And, Jacob was blessed by God through that intense experience, though he also left with a permanent limp that would remind him of the experience for the rest of his life. Quite awesome!

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