June 30, 2013
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RSS feeds, Xanga, blogging... What do I know?
Tomorrow (July 1), Google Reader is scheduled to shut down. If you're reading either of my blogs there, please be sure you transfer those feeds to the RSS reader of your choice....
If you'd prefer, you can also receive my blogs via e-mail using Blogtrottr...
(for naphtali_deer) (for tent_of_meeting)As I previously let you know, I do have a place holder blog at WordPress, and if Xanga goes down, Lord willing, I'm hoping to move this blog over there...
Or, if Xanga does carry on, I'll use my WordPress website as a point of contact in the time of transition.
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow or July 14 or July 15 or July 16, we will blog at such and such a place, and spend a year there ...” — yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring, you do not know what July 15 will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes...
Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. (James 4:13-16, adapted)There are 15 days left in the Xanga fundraiser (see here). As of today, there's been $ 31,902 raised, just barely over halfway to the $ 60,000 goal, so things aren't looking very promising...
As I recently considered the situation, some famous words of Sergeant Schultz from the t.v. series "Hogan's Heroes" (1965-71) came to my mind...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmzsWxPLIOo
"... I know nothing..."
Regarding how everything will go down with Xanga in the next couple weeks, I truly know nothing...
And yet there are things I DO know...
There is a God whom I DO know!
Psalm 9
10 And those who know your name put their trust in you,
for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.http://youtu.be/96P0bwvpbk4 - "My Savior, My God" by Aaron Shust
Aaron Shust's "My Savior, My God" is based on an 1873 hymn by Dorothy Greenwell:
"I Am Not Skilled to Understand"
I am not skilled to understand
What God hath willed, what God hath planned;
I only know that at His right hand
Is One Who is my Savior!I take Him at His word indeed;
“Christ died for sinners”—this I read;
For in my heart I find a need
Of Him to be my Savior!That He should leave His place on high
And come for sinful man to die,
You count it strange? So once did I,
Before I knew my Savior!And oh, that He fulfilled may see
The travail of His soul in me,
And with His work contented be,
As I with my dear Savior!Yea, living, dying, let me bring
My strength, my solace from this Spring;
That He Who lives to be my King
Once died to be my Savior!* * *
One more song ...
(Yep... it's Crowder... please indulge me
)http://youtu.be/-lK1iiybf0M - "This I Know" - David Crowder
O, my true and living Lord and Savior,
whether I blog or not,
strengthen me to strive and to labor diligently to enter into Your rest,
so I might serve You with joyfulness and gladness of heart
wherever You lead me and place me.(See Hebrews 4:11, Deuteronomy 28:47)
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable in your sight,
O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.(Psalm 19:14)
My gracious Master and my God,
Assist me to proclaim,
To spread through all the earth abroad
The honors of Thy name.(from Charles Wesley's "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing")
Ah! Lord, enlarge my scanty thought,
To know the wonders Thou hast wrought;
Unloose my stammering tongue to tell
Thy love immense, unsearchable.(adapted from v. 7 of "I Thirst, Thou Wounded Lamb of God,"
tr. by John Wesley based on writings of Nikolaus von Zinzendorf)By the grace of God, as He permits, seeking to blog to His glory for your joy and for my joy!
(Philippians 1:25, II Corinthians 1:24)~ Karen ~
Scripture quotations marked ESV are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.Work found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mist_Covering_a_Meadow_under_Forest_Encroachment.jpg / CC BY-SA 3.0 / by Wing-Chi Poon
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Comments (2)
I totally love the pics and videos you added with your post. ...And I know whom I have believed and am convinced that He is able to keep that which I've committed unto Him until that day."
@stephensmustang - Thanks, Elizabeth, and thank you for that Scripture.
He is able! There is none like Him!