"Most people overestimate what they can do in a day and underestimate what they
can do in a year" - Somebodya

I heard this recently and kind of latched on to it for a personal moto this year. Every now and again I get a day off of work and I always think of a thousand things to do on that one day of freedom. Sometimes I accomplish a great deal. Other days so very little.

But in thinking on the above, I know that I can accomplish so much more in a year than was accomplished last year, or possibly even the previous two. To think in a few days 1/12 of 2009 will have already passed. I have accomplished a little of what I wanted for this year, but much more to go.

This quote came to me this morning around the altar. I let my mind melt it into a spiritual mold and a thought was cast: I have often overestimated what spiritually occurs in one trip to the altar and underestimated what is done through my daily relationship and communion with God.

I know that God has already spoken so much to me this season of life. Oh, how I want Him to continue. I want Him to find in me a lent ear, and a heart set to follow. I want to look back over this year and say WOW, look what God did in a whole year of days and hours speant truly seaking His voice spoken in my life.

"... but the people that know their God will be strong and do great exploits" Dan 11:32

a Google revealed this quote was probably originally speaking of a year and a decade rather than a day and a year. I prefered the former, and regardless could not find an author.

"This Book is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold on me." –Martin Luther


Words seem so inadequate to describe the wonder of the Bible. Some men of the church have started a Bible study on Wednesday mornings. We come together and read, giving room for any or all to share their thoughts, encouragement, even frustrations. Every week we have found Him true again. We draw near to Him and we are met and ministered to by Him drawing near to us.

Reading through 1 Peter has truly laid hold of my heart. It is devastatingly adverse to me to rejoice through struggle and trial, though wrongly accused or harshly spoken to, but oh the depth found in those pages. The truth and strength that I have been able to taste by just striving to fulfill His word. What a wonder!


"Nobody ever outgrows scripture; the Book widens and deepens with our years" –Charles Haddon Spurgeon