:: greatness is a life well-lived ::

15 June 2006

Go England!

Call me a traitor to the USA team, but I'm displaying St George's Cross around West Michigan for all to see my pick for the World Cup! Go England!

It just so happens that I will be in the Motherland when the World Cup finals are played...won't that be a right good time! Cheers!

fact of the day: 2 years ago today, I flew back Stateside from a great stint of living in England. Two years already?! What a life...perhaps it's time for another adventure...

posted by FaithChristine @ 07:00

I don't claim to be great, but my desire is to live well right where God has me today. It's been easy to deceive myself into thinking greatness is something "out there" that I define and pursue, when in reality greatness happens right here through living and loving well and looking back to see how great God has been to work through me in spite of myself.

Previous Posts

• an inconsolable longing
• "I will not stop running."
• my radio debut
• pondering grace...
• on the pleasantness of friends...
• lessons in satisfaction
• my holiday weekend
• up north
• dancing
• needing some Shane tunes today...

Traveling, culture, change, communicating, being out-of-the-box - these things, though I'm passionate for them, pale in comparison to the ONE THING I desire to be about.

"Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory of God. Love means doing all we can, at whatever cost to ourselves, to help people be enthralled with the glory of God. When they are, they are satisfied and God is glorified. Therefore loving people and glorifying God are one." ~ John Piper

"Faith has joy at its heart: it is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. Therefore, the 'good fight of faith' is a fight for joy." ~ John Piper (full seminar text)

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