Through My Eyes: A Journal

By Liz Root

Contact Liz by emailing her at liz@vagrantcafe.com

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2/14/2002
sometimes i feel like i'm learning too much all at once for any of it to stick. i think what i've been thinking about lately is love. not between people but between ourselves and God. sometimes i think if we'd really learn what love is and how to love, then things could be a lot different. if my heart was truly devoted to God, i would have no problem walking in faith and obedience. i mean, doesn't that verse that says to love god and love others say that in doing so, you'll basically take care of everything? obviously, i think that i need to learn about authority and consequences of sin and all that stuff, but i think if we forget to back up all of that with the message of love, it will all turn right into legalism, and i don't want that. i don't want my life to become a list of do's and don'ts. i lived that way for far too long.


- liz r. - 2/14/2002

2/13/2002
i want the abnormal to be my normal. for dreams to be reality. i've felt really at a loss for words the last week or so. I'm going to be doing something for the next three days that will require a lot of discipline and self control. i know i can't do it, but grace helps us be able to do the things we can't.

i really wish i had more to say, but i can't just pull stuff out of me if it isn't there. well, i suppose it's there, but it just doesn't want to be verbalized. yet.




- liz r. - 2/13/2002

2/11/2002
i had a really good weekend, and now it is monday and i'm left in that depression that often sets in after you've had a good time, but now it is over. i'm not even sure what to say. there is so much and so little going on simultaneously. so much going on inside of me, and no format to vent. i suppose people would say this is a good format, and in ways it is, but right now...there's just too much.

so i'll just throw a few things out there. if you're the praying sort, please pray for my best friend, Jill, and her family. for those of you who read the vagrant cafe forum, you know what's going on, and for those that don't, just pray for restoration and healing for her family, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. pray for a restoration of hope as well.

i also want to encourage anyone reading this to keep dreaming. to remember your childhood when nothing was out of reach. do one creative thing every day, even if it's just doodling in a notebook. there is .so. much more than this. there is .so. much out there available to us that we don't even know of. but i want it. i want to grab hold of it.


- liz r. - 2/11/2002