Comments for in fantasyland http://alicenah.wordpress.com imaginative journeys through the world Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:06:38 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on The Practice of Pioneering by Sita http://alicenah.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/the-practice-of-pioneering/#comment-297 Sita Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:18:20 +0000 http://alicenah.wordpress.com/?p=274#comment-297 "This sits very uneasily in the heart of a person who strives for excellence".....I believe that for a Christian, that element deals with a sense of control..controlling events by meticulous prep etc...but the maturing process relinquishes control..relinquishes the results...then we know that it was Him..totally Him--because His thoughts are not ours, neither are His ways ours-- That is why when the Israelites were freed from Egypt, they did not have an easy mapquest road to Canaan, the Promised Land. God took them through pioneering land, a deep Red Sea, desert...unpredictable circumstances..but He covered them with His unlimited resources--parting a Sea, manna, water.... May you grant you the faith to relinquish the path and the result to Him Who has the control...just follow Him... “This sits very uneasily in the heart of a person who strives for excellence”…..I believe that for a Christian, that element deals with a sense of control..controlling events by meticulous prep etc…but the maturing process relinquishes control..relinquishes the results…then we know that it was Him..totally Him–because His thoughts are not ours, neither are His ways ours–
That is why when the Israelites were freed from Egypt, they did not have an easy mapquest road to Canaan, the Promised Land. God took them through pioneering land, a deep Red Sea, desert…unpredictable circumstances..but He covered them with His unlimited resources–parting a Sea, manna, water….
May you grant you the faith to relinquish the path and the result to Him Who has the control…just follow Him…

]]> Comment on Busyness and Burdens, Grace and Friends by Sita http://alicenah.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/busyness-and-burdens-grace-and-friends/#comment-296 Sita Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:31:47 +0000 http://alicenah.wordpress.com/?p=267#comment-296 First of all, congratulations! A milestone for you. May God bless the two of you as work for His kingdom. Second, you sound like a marvellously capable woman. Yet, the one thing that God desires of us is complete dependence on Him. The older you get, the more you grasp this. Our capabilities are 'fleeting'--His stands eternal. Dependence on Him equals coming to Him, and isn't that why He sent His Son, so that we could be in 'relationship' once more. A love so full of paradoxes, yet a love so perfect that it is the only one that satisfies. One of the things that I am grateful for is that I 'fell in love' with Jesus before I met my husband. in Him, I found the love that I had been searching for. So when I got married, I did not have to demand this 'perfection-in-love' from him. Here is part of a Spurgeon devo I posted on my blog. May it bless you today: A Strong Heart Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord. (Psalm 27:14) Wait! Wait! Let your waiting be on the Lord! He is worth waiting for. He never disappoints the waiting soul. While waiting keep up your spirits. Expect a great deliverance, and be ready to praise God for it. The promise which should cheer you is in the middle of the verse-- "He shall strengthen thine heart." This goes at once to the place where you need help. If the heart be sound, all the rest of the system will work well. The heart wants calming and cheering, and both of these will come if it be strengthened. A forceful heart rests and rejoices and throbs force into the whole man. No one else can get at that secret urn of life, the heart, so as to pour strength into it. He alone who made it can make it strong. God is full of strength, and, therefore, He can impart it to those who need it. Oh, be brave; for the Lord will impart His strength to you, and you shall be calm in tempest and glad in sorrow. He who penned these lines can write as David did-- "Wait, I say, on the Lord." I do, indeed, say it. I know by long and deep experience that it is good for me to wait upon the Lord. First of all, congratulations! A milestone for you. May God bless the two of you as work for His kingdom.
Second, you sound like a marvellously capable woman. Yet, the one thing that God desires of us is complete dependence on Him. The older you get, the more you grasp this. Our capabilities are ‘fleeting’–His stands eternal. Dependence on Him equals coming to Him, and isn’t that why He sent His Son, so that we could be in ‘relationship’ once more. A love so full of paradoxes, yet a love so perfect that it is the only one that satisfies.
One of the things that I am grateful for is that I ‘fell in love’ with Jesus before I met my husband. in Him, I found the love that I had been searching for. So when I got married, I did not have to demand this ‘perfection-in-love’ from him.
Here is part of a Spurgeon devo I posted on my blog. May it bless you today:
A Strong Heart

Wait on the Lord: be of good courage,
and he shall strengthen thine heart:
wait, I say, on the Lord. (Psalm 27:14)

Wait! Wait! Let your waiting be on the Lord!
He is worth waiting for. He never disappoints the waiting soul.
While waiting keep up your spirits.
Expect a great deliverance, and be ready to praise God for it.

The promise which should cheer you
is in the middle of the verse–
“He shall strengthen thine heart.”
This goes at once to the place where you need help.
If the heart be sound,
all the rest of the system will work well.
The heart wants calming and cheering,
and both of these will come if it be strengthened.
A forceful heart rests and rejoices
and throbs force into the whole man.

No one else can get at that secret urn of life, the heart,
so as to pour strength into it.
He alone who made it can make it strong.
God is full of strength, and, therefore,
He can impart it to those who need it.
Oh, be brave; for the Lord will impart His strength to you,
and you shall be calm in tempest and glad in sorrow.

He who penned these lines can write as David did–
“Wait, I say, on the Lord.”
I do, indeed, say it.
I know by long and deep experience
that it is good for me to wait upon the Lord.

]]> Comment on The Prodigal Daughter by Hanok http://alicenah.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/the-prodigal-daughter/#comment-294 Hanok Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:35:28 +0000 http://alicenah.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/the-prodigal-daughter/#comment-294 Shalom Alice, Just recently... I started working on an article in regards to the Luke 15 Prodigal Son Parable and was searching to see what others were writing on the subject. Your post grabbed my attention because of the "The Prodigal Daughter" title. I like how you made a very personal connection to the parable and love the image in the post. What I find interesting is this. Yeshua/Jesus was referring to "a people" in a proverbial sense who was also referred to as a "woman" in other prophetic passages (although in Luke 15, they are referred to as a "son"). Yeshua was primarily speaking about the ancient Northern Kingdom of Israel, sometimes referred to proverbially as "Ephraim" collectively, while the southern kingdom was generally referred to as Judah (or Jew-dah). Judah would of course be represented by the older, more faithful, but jealous brother. To get to my point, look how in Jeremiah 3, both the people of Ephraim and the people of Judah are referred to as sisters and daughters. Also, the entire book of Hosea is generally referring to "Ephraim" as the adulterous woman, who was stripped and sent into captivity, but were promised to one day come home. Hoping you'll find that aspect of Luke 15 interesting. The wonderful thing about Scripture is how it can speak to us all on multiple levels, without ever really contradicting itself. If you care to read my article, I published it here: http://jewsandjoes.com/the-prodigal-son-parable-luke-15-a-prophetic-macro-timeline-of-ephraim-in-last-days.html In Messiah Yeshua, Hanok ben-Isaak Shalom Alice,
Just recently… I started working on an article in regards to the Luke 15 Prodigal Son Parable and was searching to see what others were writing on the subject. Your post grabbed my attention because of the “The Prodigal Daughter” title. I like how you made a very personal connection to the parable and love the image in the post. What I find interesting is this. Yeshua/Jesus was referring to “a people” in a proverbial sense who was also referred to as a “woman” in other prophetic passages (although in Luke 15, they are referred to as a “son”). Yeshua was primarily speaking about the ancient Northern Kingdom of Israel, sometimes referred to proverbially as “Ephraim” collectively, while the southern kingdom was generally referred to as Judah (or Jew-dah). Judah would of course be represented by the older, more faithful, but jealous brother. To get to my point, look how in Jeremiah 3, both the people of Ephraim and the people of Judah are referred to as sisters and daughters. Also, the entire book of Hosea is generally referring to “Ephraim” as the adulterous woman, who was stripped and sent into captivity, but were promised to one day come home.

Hoping you’ll find that aspect of Luke 15 interesting. The wonderful thing about Scripture is how it can speak to us all on multiple levels, without ever really contradicting itself. If you care to read my article, I published it here: http://jewsandjoes.com/the-prodigal-son-parable-luke-15-a-prophetic-macro-timeline-of-ephraim-in-last-days.html

In Messiah Yeshua,
Hanok ben-Isaak

]]> Comment on The Prodigal Daughter by Ed Golod http://alicenah.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/the-prodigal-daughter/#comment-292 Ed Golod Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:12:25 +0000 http://alicenah.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/the-prodigal-daughter/#comment-292 I came across this looking for a Prodigal product for a client. It crushed me. My daughter and I have had issues as she got older, 18, but the foundation, in heart will never waver. This image blew me away as it portrays exactly how I feel. How wonderful to see art so accurately illuminate the sadness and joy in our lives. This will only come to strengthen both of us. I came across this looking for a Prodigal product for a client. It crushed me. My daughter and I have had issues as she got older, 18, but the foundation, in heart will never waver. This image blew me away as it portrays exactly how I feel.

How wonderful to see art so accurately illuminate the sadness and joy in our lives.

This will only come to strengthen both of us.

]]> Comment on Of Heroes and Heroism by Of Heroes & Heroism | The Micah Mandate : Mandat Mikha http://alicenah.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/of-heroes-and-heroism/#comment-291 Of Heroes & Heroism | The Micah Mandate : Mandat Mikha Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:10:15 +0000 http://alicenah.wordpress.com/?p=265#comment-291 [...] Originally published on 22 June, 2009 by Alice Nah. Republished with permission. Alice is a researcher who examines the interconnections between citizenship and migration. She is one of the coordinators of the Migration Working Group, a network of civil society groups and individuals advocating for the protection of the rights of migrants, refugees and stateless persons. [...] [...] Originally published on 22 June, 2009 by Alice Nah. Republished with permission. Alice is a researcher who examines the interconnections between citizenship and migration. She is one of the coordinators of the Migration Working Group, a network of civil society groups and individuals advocating for the protection of the rights of migrants, refugees and stateless persons. [...]

]]> Comment on Of Heroes and Heroism by martin http://alicenah.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/of-heroes-and-heroism/#comment-290 martin Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:46:13 +0000 http://alicenah.wordpress.com/?p=265#comment-290 Etymologically the word hero likely derives from various roots signifying a protector, guardian or defender. While there may be "super" heroes out there, the rest of us can simply be ordinary heroes, or even heroes protecting the ordinary. Meanwhile all this talk of heroes has made me hungry, as where I'm from, a hero is a tasty sandwich for lunch. :) Etymologically the word hero likely derives from various roots signifying a protector, guardian or defender. While there may be “super” heroes out there, the rest of us can simply be ordinary heroes, or even heroes protecting the ordinary. Meanwhile all this talk of heroes has made me hungry, as where I’m from, a hero is a tasty sandwich for lunch. :)

]]> Comment on Diary of a Sociology Student: Finding Your Way by martin http://alicenah.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/diary-of-a-sociology-student-finding-your-way/#comment-288 martin Sun, 10 May 2009 09:34:37 +0000 http://alicenah.wordpress.com/?p=254#comment-288 Well put! :) Well put! :)

]]> Comment on Being Ordinary by Ps Ricky http://alicenah.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/being-ordinary/#comment-282 Ps Ricky Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:19:47 +0000 http://alicenah.wordpress.com/?p=243#comment-282 The message is inspiring. Keep up the good good work. Kindly let me know more about the work of the ministry in Malaysia especially among the different peoples groups in your area. God Bless. Ps Ricky The message is inspiring. Keep up the good good work. Kindly let me know more about the work of the ministry in Malaysia especially among the different peoples groups in your area.
God Bless.
Ps Ricky

]]> Comment on Being Ordinary by Ps Ricky http://alicenah.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/being-ordinary/#comment-281 Ps Ricky Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:19:41 +0000 http://alicenah.wordpress.com/?p=243#comment-281 The message is inspiring. Keep up the good good work. Kndly let me know more about the work of the ministry in Malaysia especially among the different peoples groups in your area. God Bless. Ps Ricky The message is inspiring. Keep up the good good work. Kndly let me know more about the work of the ministry in Malaysia especially among the different peoples groups in your area.
God Bless.
Ps Ricky

]]> Comment on Diary of a Sociology Student: Why does everything seem so hard? by Reham Hussain http://alicenah.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/diary-of-a-sociology-student-why-does-everything-seem-so-hard/#comment-280 Reham Hussain Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:43:02 +0000 http://alicenah.wordpress.com/?p=247#comment-280 Sallam Dear, this is exactly how i feel abt school..i miss so much being in the office with mates and refugees. i miss doing advocacy and getting ppl into schools or/and hospitals. thank you for capturing this feeling! love and peace reham Sallam Dear,
this is exactly how i feel abt school..i miss so much being in the office with mates and refugees. i miss doing advocacy and getting ppl into schools or/and hospitals.
thank you for capturing this feeling!
love and peace
reham

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