Carrie's finds (emails from the vaults)

Written June 25, 2006

The paragraph of my life!!! Will look for books for you. I love to do it. Makes me feel valuable. Love, GC

From C. S. Lewis, " Yielding to a Pursuing God".

" The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure , and merriment He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy. It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would teach us to rest in this world and pose an obstacle to our return to God: a few moments of happy love, a landscape, a symphony, a merry meeting with friends, a date or a football match, have no such tendency. Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home."


Written Oct. 4th, 2006

Carrie, Here is a prayer I wrote a long time ago.
Thought you might get a kick out of it. GC

When I pray in the morning
and ask the Lord what chores He has for me,
I always forget that what's in the present moment is the answer.
What He wants is right there before me.
It would help though, if He would just send me an email.
As soon as I say, thy will be done......off I go
As I tear through life and tear I do,
I hope and pray that it is what He wants.
At the end of this road
As I run toward heavens gate
With my clothes tattered and torn
My knees all skinned up
Huffing and puffing and my hair all eskew
The Lord will meet me and I will say,
Did I do ok
and He will pat me on the head and tell me
You did just fine.