rainy days, cozy, alone

God is good.  He is taking care of the students I’m not meeting with.

And giving me time and time to do fundraising.  This nor’easter is making my house more cozy than usual, and the flooded roads are keeping me from driving to campus.

“Unlike other Extraverted types, ENFPs need time alone to center themselves, and make sure they are moving in a direction which is in sync with their values.”

I stole this quote from another ENFP staff, and want to put it out there… I need alone time.  I hope someday to have built a healthy habit of spending significant time in solitude.  Significant, either in length of time or simply in quality of time (aka- not sleeping).  Right now, it’s just a hit or miss (and mostly miss) kind of thing.  I know that the Lord is one who sustains, and I say this in faith that by his Spirit I am sustained.  I pray that I would pursue Him more and more…

today is Ash Wednesday

And so, as Samson’s discipline was, as a Nazirite set apart to God since birth, his hair not being cut and abstaining from alcohol (among other things?) (see Judges 13, then Judges 16).

I believe that God still uses spiritual disciplines to set us apart… particularly by showing us our own weakness that we may humble ourselves to live by His grace– his power made complete in our weakness.  So maybe that’s abstaining from something that we feel powerless to live without (chocolate!?) or participating in something that seems impossible (constant prayer!?).  I’m praying today that God will show me what discipline He has for me over these next 40 days of Lent.

I got an email from Likewise books, here:

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