Comments on: Being brave.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:11:18 +0000

Not sure how to put this, but my 6 year old cries and throws fits every morning, because school is too long away from his parents. He also is upset before going to bed, because he knows what is coming the next day. Where is his bravery? What lesson is this supposed to teach me??

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:23:29 +0000

This made me cry….still not sure why, but pretty sure it's a good cry.
thanks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:46:30 +0000

This post inspired me, which is to say that it loosened the knot in the pit of my stomach and made me feel like facing today as myself instead of being dragged through it and just surviving. There are so many tough moments we face right now, and mine are no worse than anyone else's – or if they are, God's making them that way for a reason I can't fathom.

Thank You.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:45:31 +0000

WOW! I really needed to hear this,God has been teaching me so much about trust in just this past month and it has been quite a roller coaster ride. I'm finding the more I grow in my love for Christ the more a challenge arises yet if it were easy why would we need a savior.
God is teaching me to be brave like a 6 year old also, to trust and to believe with all my heart that his plan is bigger and better than anything I could ever imagine

By: Laurel

Laurel — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:40:20 +0000

Jon you write great stuff! A few weeks ago I was teaching my Grade One Sunday school class and it was on the passage where Jesus tells the disciples to be like children. I knew that my 6 and 7 year old friends were going to have a hard time understanding why adults are being told to trust like children… and sure enough they asked. I told them that people had broken promises to me and I had learned to doubt rather than trust. I asked if anyone had broken a promise to them yet, and the fortunate wonderful children had not had that terrible experience!

By: Lerra

Lerra — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:26:51 +0000

I have so much pride that I don't even want to admit that I'm afraid, even on here where no one knows me.

My husband & I are adopting, after 3 years (and counting) of dealing with infertility. I don't know why adoption scares me, but it does a little. It shouldn't. It's just new, like the 6-year-old at school. Parenthood in general should be scary, and it is, a little, but for some reason adoption scares me more. So I've been slacking on the steps in the adoption process, in fear. I needed this post to motivate me. Thank you!

By: Lexi

Lexi — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:27:55 +0000

Thanks for this, Jon. I spend all day with six-year-olds, and they are some of the most honest, compassionate, brave people that I know.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:27:02 +0000

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]

By: preacherlady

preacherlady — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:34:19 +0000

'scuse me, I gotta go pull the Flaming Sword O' Conviction outta my heart and get to work finally finishing writing that book I've been scared to finish writing…

By: Huggies

Huggies — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:56:49 +0000

PS: Jon, if by some…anti-miracle the new SCL website sucks and everybody wants the OLD blog back…we will sooooooooo still love you, and think you are cool. In an awesomely goofy kinda way.

It's a win-win situation

Of course, I very much doubt the new website will suck. In fact, I have high hopes that it will be quite the opposite.

WV: colyaw…coleslaw's cooler younger cousin