Mandy's Soul Food!

The following two paragraphs are from my work in Experiencing God : Weekly Review Question: 7. What has God done through circumstances that has given you a sense of His timing or direction concerning any aspect of His will? Seeing Jeremiah and Angela after 18 years. My dad is able to see them one more time on Earth before dying, and he wouldn't have had the chance if he went in his own timing like he wanted to. My dad hasn't died yet, but he wanted to a couple years ago. "There is not one inch in the entire area of our human life about which Christ, who is Sovereign of all, does not cry out, 'Mine!'" The previous quote was stated by Abraham Kuyper. I found the quote in the book, Heaven , when I was reading the section on resurrection. I wanted to share this particular quote because it made me think of the seagulls in Finding Nemo . Whenever a possible morsel swam by, the gulls would shout, "Mine, mine, mine!" over and over again until t...

I've recently started reading a book called "Heaven" by Randy Alcorn. I'm not very far into it, but it has been rather insightful. I've come to the point of keeping a notebook close by to write down any quotes that make me think, and changes the way I see things about my spiritual walk. It's a good thing for me, though. Anyway, following is a quote from the book, and the reason why I chose to share it here. The quote is taken from page 54 of the book. "It isn't merely an accommadation to our earthly familial structure, for instance, that God calls himself a father and us children. On the contrary, he created father-child relationships to display his relationship with us, just as he created human marriage to reveal the love relationship between Christ and his bride (Ephesians 5:32)." My family got an answer to a prayer last night! First, a bit of history: When my sister, Amee, was younger she had two children, a boy and a girl. She had bee...