This song is wonderful.

“The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.”

C.S. Lewis

01.05.2012: Historic Richmond.

01.06.2012: Williamsburg.

01.07.2012: My Fair Lady at the Barksdale Theatre.

01.08.2012: Hiking in Pocahontas State Park.

01.09.2012: Home.

Things That Encouraged Me This Week:

• “Constant” by Charlie Hall. This is my song that’s on repeat as I head into a new semester (the live version from the “Passion 2011″ CD is much better, but this was the only one I could find on YouTube).
• Isaiah 25:6-9.
• This album by Harvest Bashta. These songs never cease to encourage me.

“You shall be a crown a beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be turned Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married. For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you… Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes; behold, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.’ And they shall be called The Holy People, The Redeemed of the LORD; and you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.”

(Isaiah 62:3-5,11-12)

“On the altar of our praise let there be no higher name: Jesus Son of God.”

So thankful that Passion is live-streaming their conference for the next few days. (live.268generation.com)

“Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to His promise we are waiting for a new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.”

2 Peter 3:11-13