Chapdelaine House

"If we want to relate to God on the basis of achievement, we will end up proud or condemned; quenching the Grace of God..." Mike Bickle If I tried to relate to God on the basis of achievement, I would be so behind... Thanks for Grace. DC

So, God accepts me for who I am. He likes me. He wants me to like me. I mess up...and I'm still supposed to accept me and like me. That is not easy. DC

"This life, therefore, is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it. The process is not finished, but is going on. This is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified." Martin Luther

"Show me a person who sees themselves in a negative light, and I will show you a person who sees others in a negative way." John C. Maxwell Be a People Person (116) Ah...Mr. Maxwell has again put to words something I have been thinking about over the past weeks. Why do I have a hard time treating Sarah well today? Why can't I seem to enjoy my friends, or random people like I normally do today? Why: I spent this whole past weekend concentrating on myself, my negative qualities, what I'm doing wrong, and what I need to do better. Sarah comes back from her weekend away, and I have a difficult time concentrating on her positive qualities. I have to really push myself out of the negative mindset in order to just listen to what her weekend was about without critiquing who she is, what she looks like, etc. It's a dangerous mindset to be in. This goes for everyone else I come in contact with as well. I could ward off anyone who comes within talking distance. A n...

It's already the fourth week of classes. Wow. I don't remember last semester starting out this fast. This being the second semester of RA-ing could have something to do with that. I'm used to my floor, all my new neighbors are awesome to get to know, and the returners are just cool in general. All the guys on G-Floor West respect each other, or are learning to respect each other, and that's what is making this floor's community what it is. I titled this "prophecy" because I have just stumbled on a real-life situation in the past week, and God has given me me revelation about His prophecy in my life. My revelation is derived from a speech given by Graham Cooke. Graham says "God gives you a prophetic word [a word about your future] so you can go there in the Spirit and bring it back to the present." Graham goes on to explain that God gives us a word about our future so we can live out of that now . We receive words of prophecy from a person, or Go...

Good day to you, I was walking from one of my classes today, thinking about my thoughts. I realized that most of the time, my thoughts are incomplete. I think in half sentences, or just words, which can allow some really negative things get in. I have heard from teachers, like Graham Cooke, that I should take each thought captive; it is biblical...today, however, I realized how polluted my head can get if I let half-thoughts take over. It also stifles my ability to communicate when I think incomplete thoughts. So, the reverse: think whole thoughts. Think complete thoughts. When I really think about what is going on in my head, when I take my thoughts captive, I have a clearer view of the things going on around me, my worries and anxieties (that should be given to God!) and the real hurts and pains hidden deep in my heart. Today I was feeling this dankness while walking back from one of my classes. When I completed the thought "I just want to eat..." it became "I ...

Welcome Back. So, what does that mean? "I used to be emo?" Hum. Emo is a "sub-culture" growth, which has exponentially become more popular over the past couple years. It mostly includes teens and twenty-somethings who have adopted a ' heart on my sleeve ' ideal. Much of the culture derives from music artists in the 'emo' genre. When I was all about the emo way of life, I let my heart out and left it on my sleeve. I knew I was hurting, and I was not afraid to sing my lungs out and scream at the top of my lungs to my most heart-touched songs. There will probably be more about this in later posts; this post is mainly about the change and condition of my heart now, post-emo...present-Jesus. ..:// "...I have come to bind up the brokenhearted." It was finally "cool" for me to bear my heart. For so long, I lived in this culture of covering myself up. I didn't have to cover my feelings, my memories, my heartbreaks. What did ...