Amy
Relationship Status
In A Relationship
Interests
Writing, photography, scrapbooking, acting, singing, God, hanging out with Garrett and all my other wonderful friends, Italian food, Mexican food, brownies and most anything else chocolate, video production, music, my iPod, dancing, laughing, reading
Favorite Music
Switchfoot, Jars of Clay, Lifehouse, Bethany Dillon, Kutless, Relient K, The Fray, Starfield, Leeland, Building 429, U2, Avril Lavigne (first two albums), The Phantom of the Opera soundtrack, no country and no rap
Favorite Movies
Pride and Prejudice, Phantom of the Opera, While You Were Sleeping, Little Women, Daddy Day Care, A Beautiful Mind, October Sky, The Majestic, The Mighty Duck movies, I Am Sam, Night at the Museum, and many more...
Favorite Books
The Bible, Wild At Heart, Waking the Dead, A Walk To Remember, Finding Alice, Little Women, Captivating, Crime and Punishment, The Veritas Conflict, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest
Other Websites
http://amypowers.net
Honestly? Part 2
December 04 2006
Printers are the devil. Who agrees?
Anyhow, I read this last night and I thought it went along quite well with my previous entry...
"As long as we do not admit that the deep things of our hearts are there - the rejection and hurt, the shame and sorrow, the anger and rage - these rooms of our heart will become darkened and the Enemy sets up shop there to accuse us.
"I am not just speaking metaphorically or poetically when I refer to the Enemy accusing us. Each of us, Christians included, is oppressed directly and specifically by the Enemy in the way I am describing. This attack happens in the spiritual realm, using the sentences and the voices we are familiar with from the past. We feel as if we are simply speaking to ourselves in our heads. And this is the Enemy's first deception: 'I am not here. It's just you struggling with all these things.' Many of us live our whole lives being defeated by this accusation. And indeed, deep in our hearts, the anxiety, shame, and self-contempt we often feel are like the attack of a roaring lion NO MATTER WHAT CALMNESS OR OTHER PERSONALITY DEVICE WE LEARN TO COVER IT UP WITH ON THE OUTSIDE. WE HIDE THE LION'S ROAR BECAUSE HE HAS CONVINCED US THAT IT IS JUST US AND WE WOULD BE ROUNDLY SCORNED IF WE WERE TO ADMIT THESE THINGS TO OTHERS.
-John Eldredge, The Sacred Romance, emphasis added
Amen, John.
Anyhow, I read this last night and I thought it went along quite well with my previous entry...
"As long as we do not admit that the deep things of our hearts are there - the rejection and hurt, the shame and sorrow, the anger and rage - these rooms of our heart will become darkened and the Enemy sets up shop there to accuse us.
"I am not just speaking metaphorically or poetically when I refer to the Enemy accusing us. Each of us, Christians included, is oppressed directly and specifically by the Enemy in the way I am describing. This attack happens in the spiritual realm, using the sentences and the voices we are familiar with from the past. We feel as if we are simply speaking to ourselves in our heads. And this is the Enemy's first deception: 'I am not here. It's just you struggling with all these things.' Many of us live our whole lives being defeated by this accusation. And indeed, deep in our hearts, the anxiety, shame, and self-contempt we often feel are like the attack of a roaring lion NO MATTER WHAT CALMNESS OR OTHER PERSONALITY DEVICE WE LEARN TO COVER IT UP WITH ON THE OUTSIDE. WE HIDE THE LION'S ROAR BECAUSE HE HAS CONVINCED US THAT IT IS JUST US AND WE WOULD BE ROUNDLY SCORNED IF WE WERE TO ADMIT THESE THINGS TO OTHERS.
-John Eldredge, The Sacred Romance, emphasis added
Amen, John.
