The View from My Bedroom Window

This is my view from my bedroom window!!! What? I can't believe it.  I'm so undeserving of everything that the Lord has blessed me with.  We have a gracious God.  

I've been reading Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost for His Highest" (thank you Connie Nixon for buying it for me) and it has changed my walk so much.  I feel that a lot of the stuff that I'll post about what I've learned will probably be from the wisdom of this remarkable man.  

"Have the right relationship with God, finding your joy there, and out of you 'will flow rivers of living water' (John 7:38). Be a fountain through which Jesus can pour His 'living water'.  Stop being hypocritical and proud, aware only of yourself, and live 'your life... hidden with Christ in God' (Colossians 3:3). A person who has the right relationship with God lives a life as natural as breathing wherever he goes.  The lives that have been the greatest blessing to you are the lives of those people who themselves were unaware of having been a blessing." -Oswald Chambers 
This is what I desire to be.  I desire to find my joy in the Lord, to be a light in this dark world for Him, to be 'hidden in Christ', to be a person who so desperately needs the Lord like their desperate need for air.  That is who I long to be.  And I have a ways to go.   


"As soon as I realize that something is too wonderful for me, that I am not worth to receive it, and that it is not meant for a human being at all, I MUST POUR IT OUT 'TO THE LORD'." - Oswald Chambers 
My situation in a nutshell. Being here in Florence is such a blessing from God.  I'm totes undeserving of being here, so 'I must pour it out to the Lord'.  I have to give this experience back to Him and live my life here as if I were a light on the top of a hill.  Pray that I will be obedient to that b/c this place needs it.  Italians are surrounded by the beautiful truth that Christ is by the amazing cathedrals and art here, but they are blinded to it.  I'm even blinded to it sometimes...