Friday, September 11, 2009

I read this on another blog today.....someday I will get to be friends with Beth Moore and her family. God never fails to teach me something through her!
this poem is amazing....




Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we have dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.


Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.


Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wider seas
Where storms will show your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.


We ask You to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push into the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.
[Sir Francis Drake]

5 comments:

Kassandra Alexis said...

Karen, Wow, thank you SO much for your comment. I was So excited to see I even had a comment lol, and then when I read yours it was so neat to see someone else who understands the struggles. I was just thinking too before I checked my blog, wow I have no clue what I am going to say and does anyone even read this lol??? I was so touched that you took time to tell me how you liked me blog and tell me your story. I am deff. thankful I did do this before college as I have seen many of my friends already pick up so many bad habits from school, and there is just SO many pressures and temptations to become unhealthy in college too. I am deff. going to continue blogging and so far it has been awesome. I had been thinking about doing it for a while but was never really 100% about it until this wkend. I just felt that God put it on my heart to do it and that this could be a great place to share my struggles and my story and to hopeful inspire others, beccause it can be done! Anyway I can help anyone is an honor to me and I feel God totally did what He did in me for a reason :o). I too hope this is your turning point and I am sure you can do it :o). I will deff. be posting more these next couple weeks about how I have done and all the backround stuff beause I know hearing 147lbs in 9 months doesn't really help on the how's and why's lol. Thanks again for sharing your story with me and I am glad to be able to read your blog as well :o).
~Kassandra

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no, they tried to do a recover, but it wasn't possible. I did have everything backed up online, but the corruption on my hard drive spread to everything that was backed up online. So when we went to restore it...it was all ruined.

Cassie said... said...

My brothers going to have another baby. He was going to be a boy, but not now...If you read my blog as much as you should you would know that!

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