I love the desert. I love to feel the heat soak into my bones like a lizard laying on a sunbathed rock in 100 degree weather. I love getting into a hot car after having been inside a place where the A/C is ridiculously overcompensating for the outside weather. I love the distinct mountains bordering all sides of Tucson letting the directionally challenged know which way we're headed, and yet still feeling as though you can see endlessly in any direction. I love the unique beauty of life struggling to grow and adapt in a dry land that seems destined for death. I love that cactus viciously defends the life inside that has managed to persevere. The desert is a part of who I am, and the place I feel most at home.

Day 2. Church-wide prayer focus: Community Life

Hebrews 10

23-25. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to faith and good works, not neglecting to meet together...but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

35-36. Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

39. But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

1 comments:

Lindsay said...

I say those verses and Hebrews 12 to myself constantly these days!

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