#New Heart

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Cast Away Thy Transgressions

31 Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel? 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live.” — Ezekiel 18:31-32 | English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Cross References: 2 Kings 17:13; Job 37:23; Psalm 51:10; Isaiah 1:16-17; Isaiah 31:6; Isaiah 55:7; Ezekiel 18:23; Ezekiel 33:11; 1 Timothy 2:4

[holmezc]

[mysteriouslyjollyheart]

Looking for satisfaction

Wanting instant gratification.

Trying to fulfill my desires

I've met way too many liars.

Plenty of times getting burned

You will quickly learn.

It's left me cold and alone

With no one to call my own.

Prevention to not get hurt

It's sure a lot of work.

I've got my boundaries and walls up

To get to my heart, it will be tough.

Sometimes I struggle to just fit in

I break down, every now and then.

Overwhelmed with everything

Sometimes I wish that I had wings.

I would fly away from this place

I'd be gone without a trace.

I wonder if anyone else, feels like this

Continually searching for bliss.

Amy

[passionforfiction]

2022 Korean Drama Countdown (Part 2)

11. Ghost

12. Café Minamgand

13. Pachinko

14. The King's Affections

15. Love in Contract

16. Run On

17. Love Is Annoying, But I Hate Being Lonely

18. A Thousand Days' Promise

19. More Than Friends

20. New Heart

21. My girl

22. Young Lady and Gentleman

[obsob]

i am a being capable of immeasurable love and whimsy

[kmac4him1st]

Present NOW

I will give you a new, undivided heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will remove your stubborn heart of stone and give you a tender heart that responds to me—a devoted heart. Therefore, you will keep my laws and faithfully obey my commands. Then you will truly be the people of my heart , and I will be the God you worship . Ezekiel 11:19-20 Right Now Right now… be anchored in God’s…

[biblebloodhound]

I Am Responsible and Accountable (Ezekiel 18:1-32)

Whatever I think, say, or do is on me, period.

The word of the Lord came to me: “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: “‘The parents eat sour grapes,    and the children’s teeth are set on edge’? “As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel. For everyone belongs to me, the parent as well as the child—both alike belong to me. The one who sins is the one…

[fallout-lou-begas]

something interesting is happening on the nexus this week

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

[mindfulldsliving]

The Crucified Life: Embracing Spiritual Transformation as a Latter-day Saint

Living a mindful Latter-day Saint Christian life requires personal sacrifice and commitment. It means repenting and turning our hearts and minds back to our Heavenly Father.

Photo by Joel Muniz on Unsplash I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit inside you; I will take the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. ~ Ezekiel 36:26, CJB ~ Beginning to live a mindful crucified Christian life as a Latter-day Saint starts from within. If you sincerely want to change yourself—to experience a mighty change of heart and strive to become a better…

[christianotome]

A heart is always a heart

While current trends advise us to follow our hearts, God’s opinion on it is very different. He says “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9) and “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.” (‭Matthew 15:19).

Of course He promised to give us a new heart (Ezekiel 11:19 and Ezekiel 36:26), but I don’t believe that means it will be immune to the weaknesses inherent to the heart, just that, like in the parable of the sower (Luke 8:5-8), He will to transform the bad soil of our hearts in a soil capable of bear fruit of His word (Luke 8:11-15).

That’s why we shouldn’t expect too much of our hearts. It’s job is to feel and to feel it should, but we need to know that our feelings won’t always be righteous (and when they aren’t we need to get rid of them) and we can make decisions based on them.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

A Prophecy to the Mountains of Israel

1 And thou, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say to the mountains of Israel, Hear ye the word of the Lord: 2 Thus saith the Lord God; Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, the old waste places are become a possession for us: 3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have been dishonoured, and hated by those round about you, that ye might be a possession to the remainder of the nations, and ye became a by-word, and a reproach to the nations: 4 therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the streams, and to the valleys, and to the places that have been made desolate and destroyed, and to the cities that have been deserted, and have become a spoil and a trampling to the nations that were left round about; 5 therefore, thus saith the Lord; Verily in the fire of my wrath have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Idumea, because they have appropriated my land to themselves for a possession with joy, disregarding the lives of the inhabitants, to destroy it by plunder: 6 therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because ye have borne the reproaches of the heathen: 7 therefore I will lift up my hand against the nations that are round about you; they shall bear their reproach. 8 But your grapes and your fruits, O mountains of Israel, shall my people eat; for they are hoping to come. 9 For, behold, I am toward you, and I will have respect to you, and ye shall be tilled and sown: 10 and I will multiply men upon you, even all the house of Israel to the end: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the desolate land shall be built upon. 11 And I will multiply men and cattle upon you; and I will cause you to dwell as at the beginning, and will treat you well, as in your former times: and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 12 And I will increase men upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall inherit you, and ye shall be to them for a possession; and ye shall no more be bereaved of them.

13 Thus saith the Lord God: Because they said to thee, Thou land devourest men, and hast been bereaved of thy nation; 14 therefore thou shalt no more devour men, and thou shalt no more bereave thy nation, saith the Lord God. 15 And there shall no more be heard against you the reproach of the nations, and ye shall no more bear the revilings of the peoples, saith the Lord God.

A New Heart and a New Spirit

16 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 17 Son of man, the house of Israel dwelt upon their land, and defiled it by their way, and with their idols, and with their uncleannesses; and their way was before me like the uncleanness of a removed woman. 18 So I poured out my wrath upon them: 19 and I dispersed them among the nations, and utterly scattered them through the countries: I judged them according to their way and according to their sin. 20 And they went in among the nations, among which they went, and they profaned my holy name, while it was said of them, These are the people of the Lord, and they came forth out of his land. 21 but I spared them for the sake of my holy name, which the house of Israel profaned among the nations, among whom they went.

22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; I do not this, O house of Israel, for your sakes, but because of my holy name, which ye have profaned among the nations, among whom ye went. 23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the nations, which ye profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, when I am sanctified among you before their eyes. 24 And I will take you out from the nations, and will gather you out of all the lands, and will bring you into your own land: 25 and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you. 26 And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you: and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you, and will cause you to walk in mine ordinances, and to keep my judgments, and do them. 28 And ye shall dwell upon the land which I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be to me a people, and I will be to you a God. 29 And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and multiply it, and will not bring famine upon you. 30 And I will multiply the fruit of the trees, and the produce of the field, that ye may not bear the reproach of famine among the nations. 31 And ye shall remember your evil ways and your practices that were not good, and ye shall be hateful in your own sight for your transgressions and for your abominations. 32 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God, as it is known to you: be ye ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.

33 Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities I will also cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built upon: 34 and the desolate land shall be cultivated, whereas it was desolate in the eyes of every one that passed by. 35 And they shall say, That desolate land is become like a garden of delight; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are inhabited. 36 And the nations, as many as shall have been left round about you, shall know that I the Lord have built the ruined cities and planted the waste lands: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

37 Thus saith the Lord God; Yet for this will I be sought by the house of Israel, to establish them; I will multiply them even men as sheep; 38 as holy sheep, as the sheep of Jerusalem in her feasts; thus shall the desert cities be full of flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the Lord. — Ezekiel 36 | Brenton's Septuagint Translation (BST) The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851) Cross References: Leviticus 15:19; Leviticus 26:4; Leviticus 26:9; Numbers 13:32; Deuteronomy 9:5; Deuteronomy 11:11; Deuteronomy 32:13; 2 Chronicles 34:21; Job 42:12; Psalm 43:5; Psalm 44:13-14; Psalm 47:10; Psalm 51:2; Psalm 74:18; Psalm 89:50; Psalm 102:15; Isaiah 4:2; Isaiah 27:6; Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 51:3; Jeremiah 15:7; Jeremiah 30:22; Jeremiah 31:19; Jeremiah 42:10; Ezekiel 6:2; Ezekiel 34:13-14; Daniel 2:18; Mark 3:8; John 2:14; John 3:3; John 3:5; Acts 2:36; Romans 2:6; Romans 2:24

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