it is amazing

to receive such strength from God that I barely feel human.

"And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say."

to experience brotherly love so full that it cannot be of human attempt, humbling and full of truth.

"Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful."

to receive a direct answer to prayer so powerful as to be transforming.

"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?"

to be part of the body of Christ.

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

to find it within God's will that I should be part of the institution He set up to symbolize His relationship with the church, with a man who so amazes me that grateful Scripture constantly comes to mind.

"He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love."

it is amazing. i am full of amazement. i am amazingly in love. when life is hardest, it is then that He carries us. i have never had so much to stress about, but i have never been so amazed. life is full of miracles.