Meaning

Terra is obviously meaning "earth or land"

Bithia is a name derived from another name, Bethia.

This name means "daughter of Jehovah"



Terabithia = "God's daughter's land"

Bridge to Terabithia

"Is it like the Bible says? Is she really going to Hell?"

Oh my!!!

This was the greatest 96 minutes of my past week. It's like God's been culminating my love for Him and my walk with Him recently up to the point of convergence with this story...this parable...this fiction of faith...or Reality of Faith as it exists simultaneously.

This movie tore me up.

Talk about being vulnerable to a message...

I loved it and might be writing about this for a long while.

Not a rap...just a rap

There's a question in my soul,
Of which I can't grab a hold,
It's a rock I can't crush,
An answer I just want to be told,
Elusively, it's like an active mystery.
I'm in disbelief.
I remembered then forgot, that's my history.
Why can't we, brothers, be,
Loving to each other when we eat?
What's with the attitudes that we conceive?
Why do we lack common courtesy?
This junk is hurting me,
Deep inside there's a wound burning free,
Like a forest's blaze that is killing trees.

"Like an olive tree, planted by the streams."


What about the prayers that we pray?
What about the words we say each and everyday,
Like we're speaking to Shakespeare blinded by sun rays,
When culture has got it's grip, culture don't let go,
When you've got God in a box, you would hate to lose control,
But what if we really prayed, like how the Psalmists stated,
O my God, "how long will you hide Your face?", it's belated,
And I've just conveyed it,
Though hoping to allay it,
That in a few moments Love will have portrayed it.


Cover your heart up and pretend there's nothing to see,
Like you're perfectly fine, and your wounds don't stink.
Festering cuts that happened long ago,
Repressed memories of others' sins that nobody else knows,
A holey veil over your body to make it seem fine,
But through all the pain one sees when using Jesus' eyes.
Because Jesus' eyes, can see His children's cries,
And don't you hate to see your brethren trapped behind enemy lines?
Don't you hate it when others lie?
Let us ask, then, why do I?

Waiting...true/false

"There's a lot of activity going on...what's happening?"

"I'm not sure...just keep watching...wait for something..."

"What are we waiting for? Will I see something?"

"Maybe...who knows, it might just be a noise...maybe nothing."

"What do you mean, 'maybe nothing?' I thought I would get to see something wonderful."

"What do I mean? What do you mean...you wouldn't know anything about this if I hadn't told you. Why don't you, therefore, relax and enjoy the anticipation...the energy of the moment?"

"I can't stand still...it's getting to me. I'm not sure if this is what I want...I'm not sure that I want to just wait around."

"Look, quite focusing on the time issue of having to wait. Patience is easy if you can focus on something else while you're waiting."

"What do you mean?"

"Think about it like this, when I was young, on Christmas Eve my family would travel to my relatives' and we would have dinner together and read the Biblical account of Jesus' birth and then open presents to each other. But, as long as I was eating dinner, I wasn't as anxious to open presents."

"How does this relate to me though?"

"The idea is that if you focus on something related by talking about it and engaging in it mentally, spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually, you will be able to be patient for the initial focus indirectly. Like right now, we're talking about waiting, but the waiting we had been focused on just moments ago seems less powerful upon us, doesn't it?"

"Yeah...I guess so...it's not gone though."

"Mmhmm...it won't leave you, because you are still tied to that focus in some way."

"I think I'm beginning to understand it a little better, mayb----Hey look at that!

"I see! I see!"

I am so excited about the LORD today. I can't comprehend the greatness which He extends to us, but I am still super pumped. WOW!!!!!!!!!!


With my lips, holy words slip off my tongue,
There's a song to be sung,
A song of praise,
To my God the Son,
All the years I've clung
To His holy name,

Now I cannot exclaim,
His beauty nor His fame,
With my heart unrestrained,
Jesus, I proclaim

Inside my heart
There's a wonderful reaction,
Inside my soul, I'm saved.
Inside my head, a splendid addiction,
He satisfies with the love I crave.

More to come...I think

WOW!!! Today was busy to a new level. I mean, it was busy like SOAR's busiest day.

I got up at 8:00 and I'm still not finished (and I haven't had a break from productive activity yet-because this post is productive in a way, in that it allows my mind to relax briefly as I mentally recharge before hitting the historical facts again for another 45 min-hour).

I'm reading a ton for my Gnostics, Pagans, and Heretics course. Today's assignment was over 100 pages for tomorrow's class...and it wasn't completely horrible. I actually enjoyed some of it.


Now, to the serious stuff...I've been thinking for awhile about shaving my head and letting my hair grow really long. It would be in the act of consecration: 1) as the Nazirites did... 2) similarly, but as a symbol of a vow to the Lord.

A friend sent me an e-mail tonight about a spiritual happening with believers in which something like this happened in a boy's dream....and it peaked my spirit's interest again since I'd had the thoughts from several months back.

More to come...more to read...more to learn...more to know...more to thank God...and more to recognize that we don't know much from an eternal perspective...it's glorious

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. AMEN!

Vanity

Caring for others is really a vain pursuit unless coupled with a faith in a greater purpose of and for which you are really only at work out of love (meaning two things…what makes us think that we have any power to help people – done in vain, no impact –…and we’re just like them with our own problems, do we think we’re better than them – vanity).

Optimism

There are studies that would seem to show that people with optimistic attitudes live longest. Perhaps, this evidence is true because these people are able to endure the worst…and rebound quickly. You probably know this…but in his book Night, Elie Wiesel speaks to the truth that only those who have something to live for, such as he did while in the concentration camps in Nazi Germany, survive. There is also the cliché, “Only the strong survive.” Interestingly enough…the strongest person ever died young…as a decision so that all might live forever…

In Vain

As you know, the Enemy loves to deceive us into fruitlessness by drawing us into prayer without purpose…petitioning without solid petition…asking for the purpose of asking without a purpose of receiving. If only we questioned our Lord who provides wisdom to all without finding fault as we do our computer-literate salesperson when seeking to buy a new computer instead of stating vagaries like we do with God, never expecting to receive an answer without finding it out ourselves. Search with purpose, ask a question you want answered...ask for the right questions to ask...don't just say the Lord's name in vain

False revival in the body

I recently read this short story and it had one of the craziest analogies…and it seemed true. It said, to our body’s cells, “cancer may seem a revival of faith.” I was thinking about this and how for some reason, this perfectly relates to our desire and craving for sin…the energy is creates and the nerves it stimulates…like our blood coursing through our veins…the accelerated heart rates…Sin, therefore, does seem a lot like cancer…it seems to give us life (replication of new cells) when in fact it's actually stealing life from us....