'Here's one from this morning - Jeremiah 17.  This is what the Lord says: “Cursed are those who put their trust in  mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from  the...|||Those are great verses, and a good point, too! Those are good comfort verses when it seems like everybody's an enemy.  We need to realize, one, that physical people aren't our real enemies. I like...|||Your face is so ugly, you were walking down the street and a guy you didn't even know was reading his newspaper. When he heard your footsteps he closed his paper and put it beside him and lowered his...|||I think I've always been a contingency planner, though I've never really had a plan A.  Maybe it's a subconscious defense against failing - if the plan doesn't exist, it can't fail, and...|||38781  Yup|||Sitting at work with a cramp in my neck, contemplating taking off my tie and shedding the jacket, but in the end I'm too lazy.|||Waking up and lamenting that all I really have to eat is a bagel, unless I want bacon and eggs, which would entail cleaning the skillet that my roommate left NASTY yesterday ...  Also thanking...|||Thank you. You have mine as well. God's just amazing.|||Agree :) And after coming across that verse again today, I think I'm finally seeing a light at the end of this tunnel.|||Happens to me all the time, with coworkers especially, and with my former GF. She would just laugh at something I said and I'd be like ... um ... oh, I get it now!  Often, now, having been...|||WanderingThoughts Solo Julia Bell ...  Thought you all might appreciate this, just something that came to mind this evening, especially in the midst of this massive battle I've been going through....|||etymology of defenestration|||WanderingThoughts, Solo, this is spectacular insight! That is all.|||God's opinion is the only one that matters. You have no idea how refreshing it is to hear somebody in today's culture say that!!!  It seems like today we live near the end of the book of Judges,...|||Exactly!  Sunday school - are you talking about adult Sunday school, or teaching kids Sunday school?  For the former, I NEVER went to a church that had adult Sunday school until the last church...|||That's a beautiful verse from Isaiah. Your light will break forth like the dawn ...  And the verse from 2 Corinthians is one of my favorites ever. I always start it from But we have this...|||Julia Bell, exactly :)  WanderingThoughts, Ditto.  One for the road, and then I'm hitting the sack!  John 17:23 I in them and you in me,   that they may become perfectly one,   so that the...|||WanderingThoughts, Oh, suuuuure, bring up John Eldredge again - one of the more popular Christian authors I have some disagreements with ;) In all seriousness, I'm not debating that his insights can...|||Okay, so as promised @rubystone, I uploaded myself playing a few worship songs.  Just so everybody's a little bit kind to me, I hadn't quite woken up yet when I sat down to play these, and they...|||Now see what ya' done rubystone??? You got me posting worship songs and I won't be able to stop!  I could only include 5 videos in my last post, but here are some more awesome ones :)  Here's...|||rubystone, *jaw drops* I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE both of those songs.  I Stand in Awe of You could be my all-time favorite worship song. Like when I sit down at the piano or start singing in the...|||I don't know exactly why, but Skillet's songs always kind of appeal to my INFP-ish-ness.  This one makes me want to cry every time. Regret is a killer.  ...|||I definitely have the same perfectionist streak, and it gets downright depressing sometimes to realize how far off the mark I am.  I have to tell myself to take comfort sometimes, simply because I...|||@Elzindrhythm, great list! Huge Tenth Avenue North fan right here :) David Crowder is always a favorite too. Saw them in concert I think twice. One was with Third Day - that was just a great concert!...|||Theodore, I Saw the Light is one of my favorites. :) Love the camp-meeting feel of that version.  I actually have this version of it as my alarm clock - can't go wrong with a banjo!  ...|||Hey now, one man's cheesy is another man's simply stated truth. ;)  I have a feeling you'd hate this song, but it makes me smile and kinda has that yeah, it's okay, 'cause God's in control...|||WanderingThoughts, Three stellar songs!  I've always liked Chris Rice a lot, probably just for his simplicity, lyrically and musically. His rendition of A Mighty Fortress ... That's interesting -...|||How is anyone's timing allowed to be this perfect???  Again, that was exactly what I needed, right now. That passage from Hebrews and the insight ... you're right. We tend to mix idealism and...|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iIpvYB6EOc  This one is maybe my favorite contemporary Christian song ever. No explanation needed.  ♫ You will find me. I'm at the point of your breaking, behind...|||Just thought it might be cool to have a place to post some uplifting, encouraging, convicting, fun (or add other descriptors) of Christian music, for those of us that enjoy it. :)  Anybody out...|||fldshmdgdblfmddhbldagh! (frustration) stuff ish Really, I'm fine with whatever. You decide! Sorry, I lost you at 'So I was thinking,' Sorry, I was down the rabbit hole again. That...|||With the disturbing the sanctity thing, I kind of felt that a few times a couple winters ago.  I love to shoot pictures of flowers and wildlife at the local cemetery, and we had a couple of...|||The J is the absolute hardest thing for me. My time management skills stink, I'm rarely at something *exactly* on time. You should see my desk ... it ain't pretty ;) ... Ummmm ... some things I'm...|||You guys are all blowing me away!  So many wonderful, relevant, uplifting words. :)  Julia Bell, I love that quote, especially the passage in Luke 20 ... But he looked directly at them and said,...|||LOL! It is painful sometimes!  I thought it was an interesting concept when I read that, and I had never given it this much thought before.  I had always thought my job kind of required me to be...|||Quo Vadis Vinicius: What kind of love is it that acknowledges a force great than itself?  Father Goose Walter: So far you're shared me out of my clothes, my food and my house. Now, how about...|||So I found something interesting reading Typelogic's INFP profile, in the phrase INFPs can even masquerade in their ESTJ  business suit ...  Which got me to thinking about my job - that of a...|||Waiting for: I am waiting for goals to magically appear in my mind and give me some clear direction.  Doing: To that end, I am sitting around doing nothing, because we know there's nothing one can...|||I used to be ridiculously self-conscious about singing.  Then somehow I realized I was fairly tolerable at picking out a harmony, so on songs with a melody not in my range, all of a sudden I could...|||Favorite movies ... I have so many it's ridiculous.  Wanna preface by saying that overall, my favorites have to be the entire Star Wars saga, and Lord of the Rings masterpiece. Chronicles of Narnia...|||Christian.  Non-denominational.  I don't particularly identify with Pentecostals, Baptists, Presbyterians, Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists or any other denomination of...|||Never have, and don't ever plan on it.  Any kind of tobacco smoke gives me a headache.  My grandparents smoked hardcore for like 50 years, so I was a serious secondhand smoker when they were...|||Incidentally, as far as stories, I'd say the story of the apostle Paul in the Bible is my favorite.  Book of Acts mainly, but all throughout Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians,...|||The unforgivable crime/sin is the one that's not asked forgiveness for.  As long as there is a victim, there is the opportunity for forgiveness, and that's the beautiful thing about grace. ...|||By your definition, yes, I'm absolutely a hopeless romantic. In my previous relationship, I was much more romantic than my gf (I believe an INTJ or ISTJ). That was interesting, especially when she...|||Not weird at all - I think it's perfectly natural. Maybe it's something you should regret, maybe it's not.  I sometimes need to keep in mind that there area million things that could always have...|||Interesting notes on the addictions.  I really hate being a slave to anything, so I pretty much keep away from stuff, particularly the kind of thing that alters my mental state.  For that...|||I think, to me, it depends on how it ends.  One ended, and I was the ender of it. I think that, it being my decision, I was able to get to the objective analysis and realize it just wasn't right....|||amethyst_butterfly  I think Psalm 23 may have been the first passage I ever memorized. Given all those times that I just feel overwhelmed or inadequate, it's nice just to picture those streams of...|||That's pretty much the way it works for me, too.  I was kind of wondering if I'm weird because I really don't hold grudges ...  There are a lot of things I believe that happen to me that would...'