If I Stand...

8/19/10
My name is Andrea. I am a 26 year old physician assistant who is absolutely in love with practicing medicine. More importantly, I am a Bible believing Christian. I have decided to share my spiritual journey here with anyone who would like to join me. These are my field recordings...

February 16, 2011 2:24 am

"And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?"

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Jesus, Matthew 6:27

February 4, 2011 12:15 am

"…O the tormenting slavery of a sinful heart! Destroy, O God, the dark guest within whose hidden presence makes my life hell. Yet thou hast not left me here without grace; The cross still stands and meets my needs in the deepest straits of the soul…"

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“The Dark Guest”, from “Valley of Vision”, by Arthur Bennett

February 3, 2011 11:51 pm

"The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray."

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Samuel Chadwick (via theloverstraces)

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I need to do this more.

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January 17, 2011 8:58 pm

"Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars."

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~Violeta Parra (via tracesoffingerprints)

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January 5, 2011 11:07 pm

This is pretty much what happened on one of my birthdays back in college, thank you, Bat-Steve ;). I need to go back to SG sometime and re-claim it if it’s still there. I have no idea who lives there now, but I know where the key is ;)

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10:59 pm

"…Calvary broke the dragon’s head, and I contend with a vanquished foe, who with all his subtlety and strength has already been overcome…"

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“The Servant in Battle”, from Valley of Vision

January 3, 2011 11:09 pm

"…Suffer me not to be insensible to these daily mercies…"

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“Evening Praise”, from Valley of Vision

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12:31 am

"…I bless thee that thou hast veiled my eyes to the waters ahead…"

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“Years End”, from Valley of Vision
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What a statement: not just to accept the veil, but to give a blessing for the veil.

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December 30, 2010 9:41 pm

E-Mail I Sent to my Bible Study…

Howdy Pilgrims,

Today, while studying the vast display of humidifiers at Meijer, I stumbled upon a 2011 wall calendar called “Paths to God”. I bought it on a whim, and was relieved to find when I got home that the calendar was in fact about THE path to God, and not ALL paths to God, as I had begun to worry while driving home. Like a good Baptist girl, I was surprisingly pleased to find that the calendar was not entirely filled with warm-fuzzies. The year begins with a photo of an endless row of frost-covered trees, and displays the verse 1 Peter 2:21 “To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.” I realize that that verse comes from a passage about submitting to masters, but when you pull that verse out and place it in a frozen landscape, it calls you to follow down the path of suffering that Christ walked first. This does not mean to be lead to certain doom, but to step in the footsteps that Christ left us in the snow as an example of how to cross, endure, and spiritually survive the terrain that causes us to suffer. It is surprisingly comforting to start the year by thinking of the example that I have been given to follow. I wonder how many other people out there will spend their January staring at the same scene ;)

~Andrea

Edition: 1 hour status-post hovering over my new humidifier for an hour and a half I am able to breathe deeply without coughing or wheezing. Mission Accomplished.

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December 20, 2010 11:18 pm

"We had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead."

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Apostle Paul, II Corinthians 1:9

December 2, 2010 9:38 am

Oh LORD,
You know the weight I have been placing on my shoulders—the weight I am entirely ill-equipped to carry—the weight I should have never been so arrogant to believe I could take upon myself. I hand it to You. It is Yours to take—only You are sufficient to carry it. I also give You my hands—they are not mine, but Yours to use in whatever way You choose to—great or small—in your own perfect timing.

Love,
Andrea

November 24, 2010 8:38 am

"When the world keeps spinning round—and my life’s up-side-down—I wouldn’t change a thing. I’ve got nothing else to loose—I lost it all when I found you—and I wouldn’t change a thing."

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“Spin”, by Lifehouse

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November 22, 2010 10:29 pm

"…From the place where morning gathers, you can look sometimes forever ‘til you see—what time may never know—how the Lord takes by its corners this old world and shakes us forward—shakes us free—to run wild with the hope —the hope that this thirst will not last long—that it will soon drown in the song not sung in vain. I feel the thunder in the sky—I see the sky about to rain—and I hear the prairies calling out Your name. I know this thirst will not last long—that it will soon drown in the song not sung in vain. I feel the thunder in the sky—I see the sky about to rain—and with the prairies I am calling out Your name."

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“Calling Out Your Name”, by Rich Mullins

November 8, 2010 10:26 pm

"Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet appeared as yet what we WILL be. We know that when He appears, we will BE LIKE HIM, because we will see Him just as He is."

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1 John 3:2