October 2005
Monthly Archive
Extravagant Love!
Posted by Paul on 12 Oct 2005 | Tagged as: General, Hope, Poetry, Ponderings, Remembering
To abandon our hearts to the Lord,
To the lover of our soul.
To be set free, To be an extravagant lover of the Most High
To Worship in the Beauty of Holiness.
To abandon all, To lay it down, to die, that we might live in all that He is!
He bids us come, come into His chambers, into the
Holy of Holies.
To come into the cleansing presence of His presence,
a removal of all that is you and replaced with all that is of Him.
Choosen of the Lord, called by His name, walking in paths of
righteousness, being Holy, even as He is Holy.
One with Him, Blended together, one with the Father and the Son!
(C) Paul E. Dawn Jr. 2005
Oh My, I’ve Been Tagged!
Posted by Paul on 10 Oct 2005 | Tagged as: Coffee Thoughts, General
I Have been tagged by Vicki of Windows To My Soul:
Here are the instructions:
1. Go into your archives.
2. Find your 23rd post.
3. Post the fifth sentence (or closest to it).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
5. Tag five other people to do the same thing.
Like Vicki, I was curious as to what my own 23rd post was, I’ve skimmed over my posts. My 23rd post was Stepping Out from May 24,2004. The fifth sentence (not counting my opening quote)was underlined:
Monday – May 24, 2004
Stepping Out
Since beginning Hill Country Thoughts in April it has been amazing!
It was a matter of stepping out. Having faith and believing God would do that which He had spoken to my heart a long time ago. But I kept putting it off, saying, who me! You gotta be kidding Lord!!
That was funny to me also, as this was the beginning of Hill Country Thoughts … now it is your turn … lets see, I will tag: Bob of Gratitude & Hoopla, Nancze NHisGarden, Kat of Wings of Grace, Meesh of Meesh’s Musing, and Romi of Romi’s Journal.
His Tender Mercies!
Posted by Paul on 06 Oct 2005 | Tagged as: Cancer, Coffee Thoughts, Encouragement, Family, Friends, General, Ponderings
What a beautiful morning!
I woke this morning at around 4:00 AM, to the sound of the gentle rain on the roof. A fresh breeze blowing through the window, oil lamp lit, remembering the many times back in Texas of sitting on the front porch writing, pondering, thinking of things.
It is nice to be able to sit up my portable desk by the window here in my room at my daughters. To sit here and write and watch the sun rise, as life begins to move and to know that this is a new day, a new beginning, that this room is not all there is!
Rather, I am on a new journey, a new season in my life. A time of moving on, pressing into to the things of the Lord an to remember His words.
This morning the Lord led me to Lamentations 3:21-26 and what strength there is in a book with the name of Lamentations.
We read: “(21) But this I recall and therefore have I hope and expectation: (22) It is because of the Lord’s mercy and loving-kindness that we are not consumed, because His [tender] compassions fail not. [Mal. 3:6.] (23) They are new every morning; great and abundant is Your stability and faithfulness. [Isa. 33:2.] (24) The Lord is my portion or share, says my living being (my inner self); therefore will I hope in Him and wait expectantly for Him. [Num. 18:20.] (25) The Lord is good to those who wait hopefully and expectantly for Him, to those who seek Him [inquire of and for Him and require Him by right of necessity and on the authority of God's word]. (26) It is good that one should hope in and wait quietly for the salvation (the safety and ease) of the Lord.” Lamentations 3:21-26 Amplified Bible
Indeed I do have hope and expectations. My room, is not all there is, there is so much more I feel the Lord has for me yet to do.
I am so thankful for His tender mercies which indeed are new each morning, fresh, life giving. His compassion fails us not. No looking back to what was but to what will be in the Lord!
The Lord is our portion, He is our strength. It is He that gives us hope and He is good to those who place their hope in Him, who wait with expectancy, to those who seek Him, He will be found, He will reveal Himself.
He will bring us to a place of intimacy with Him, as we go through these times in our lives. He will reveal Himself, His heart, His direction, His guidance in all aspects of our life.
Though yesterday, I felt like my hope was so very fragile, in reality it was not, a little hope in the Lord, though it be but a thread, it is the strongest thing in the universe.
My hope, your hope is built on the sure foundation of the Word of God. We are made strong by the word, by the Spirit, as we place our hope, our trust, in Him, even when “we don’t see anything.” It then becomes a matter of faith, hope and trust in the Creator of heaven and earth.
Indeed we are a people of Hope, we stand on solid ground, we stand on the word of God.
We are a people of Hope!
Lord, Is This It?
Posted by Paul on 05 Oct 2005 | Tagged as: Friends, General, Ponderings, Remembering
Today has been one of those days when it seems all my emotions are in a windmill, going all different directions as I set here in my room and I look around and think:
“Lord, is this it, is this all there is, is this the sum total of my life, of my hope Lord?”
“My hope Lord is so fragile at the moment that it seems that all it would take is a breath and it would break into a thousand pieces!”
“Yet, Father, I know my hope is in you and in you alone, that my strength is in you? Who else can I go to, to whom can I turn but you Lord.”
“Father, to whom can I cry out too but you. You are my strength, my shield, my covering, my saviour, my Lord. It is you that is carrying me through this week as family is together.”
“There is none other than you Lord. You are the rock on which I stand and Lord though that hope be fragile, it is made strong because it is you.”
“Lord, bless my many friends, my fellow writers and bloggers. Help them to call out to you Lord, to find their strength in you and you alone Lord.”
And Donna, thank you my friend for the new link, you will never know how much “Stay Put and Abide In Me” and your other post’s today, strengthen my hope in the Lord!!
Memories!
Posted by Paul on 03 Oct 2005 | Tagged as: Cancer, Encouragement, Friends, Hope, Pinecrest, Ponderings, Remembering
A few days ago I received and e-mail from a friend that I had not heard from in over thirty years.
He e-mailed me after visiting Hill Country Thoughts and reading my biography and He wondered if I was the same Paul Dawn that He graduated when he did from Pinecrest?
Of course it was me. We shared a couple of e-mails and then this evening I gave Chuck a call and my what a flood of memories where brought back to me as I remembered the years spend at Pinecrest.We talked about old friends, Pinecrest and what has been going on in our lives.
You know, sometimes it is just really neat to sit back and open the files of our minds and remember the times in our lives when the Lord did significant things in us.
I looked back and gave thanks to the Lord for the people who have been part of my life.
I remember Bro. Wade Taylor, the founder of Pinecrest and my spiritual Father, whose life reflected the reality of a relationship with the Lord. To be in His presence, was to sense that this man spent time in the presence of the Lord in prayer and Pinecrest was birthed in His heart.
Sister Bobbi Adkins, a mother to many children in the Lord, who nurtured and carried many of us in prayer and intercession while at school.
There are so many others, that I could write a book, who have touched my heart and my life with the love of the Lord.
I just want to say thanks to Chuck for the memories, for contacting me and being used of the Lord to be a source of encouragement to me.
It is good to hear the voice of a friend from long ago.
Chuck may the Lord bless June and you. May He continue to watch over you and your sons.
And may the Lord bless you my many new friends, writers and bloggers, for the new memories and hope that you are bringing into my life as you share from the heart!
