The Merrill Legacy
I am Elizabeth Merrill Nafziger. I received my middle name from my maternal mother who died when my mother was 15. I have been give her legacy to add to and pass on. My question for you is: What is your legacy?
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Sleep Sickness
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Growing Pains
I have learned, or rather realized, that I am no longer a child that I should rely on my parents or peers for guidance in my physical or spiritual life. Two thing have made me realized this. First, my B-i-C Whit and Josh put together an event called Do Something 2010. I was secretly dreading going to the event because I knew God would move in me and I was pretty sure in which direction. I have been so fed up with my life of complacent stagnation but so fearful of stepping out. I was afraid because I knew I couldn’t be guided or lead by my peers but only by my walk with God. Essentially, I was wrecked with doubt.
During prayer at the event, a woman came up to me and asked me if she could pray for me and what I needed. All I could respond with was “I don’t know.” The word from God that she gave me was [paraphrase] “you know Him, walk with Him.” One of the doubts I have been having is ‘do I really know Him’. But this revelation didn’t hit until something else happened.
Secondly, about a week or two ago, I got into yet another fight with my dad. The fight was nothing big, but it was a catalysis for me. This is what I wrote while in the aftermath:
I am in chaos, I’m ripping myself apart. All I want is to be seen, to be heard, to be loved. Why can’t they love me?
Put not your strength in man, for man alone will only fail. Ask first for God’s love so that you may have love eternal, then you can give it to the nations.
I was looking to everyone but God for love, and I don’t think I entirely realized it until now. I have been ripping myself apart because without God there is chaos. No matter how much my parents (or anyone else) love me, they can't love me as much as God can. Seek God first and all these thing shall be added to you.
Growing has a tendency to be rather painful. I have caught the revelation that I know God and can walk with Him, trusting Him for all my needs. I don’t have to rely on others for guidance but I have been everything I need for life and godliness. Now I must choose to use it. No can make this decision for me.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Lost Note 2
But God is good, He is kind and loving. My life is nothing to me. He has made me to be a new creature. He has given me His awesome power. Ask and it will be done; Knock and it will be opened. When I do His will, nothing can stand in my way. I am not one of the walking dead; I have life eternal. My burdens are no more.
How can I who am alive live with the dead? But how can I leave? If I who was once dead am now alive, they also can become alive. “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in Me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things that these because I am going to the Father.”(John 14: 12) Christ raised the dead. He made what was dead become alive. He asks me to do nothing but what He has already done.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Do Something!
Wake up.
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The world will not disappear because you ignore it. The problems will not fix themselves. So many are asleep, so many are leaving, the problems are growing.
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Can’t you hear them? Can’t you hear their cries for help?
Help them!
What do you mean you don’t know how!
You have what can fix the problem, why don’t you know how to use it?!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Lost Note 1
Monday, August 31, 2009
Psalm 15
LORD, who may dwell in your sanctuary?
He whose walk is blameless
and has no slander on his tongue,
who despises a vile man
who lends his money without usury
Everyone has a code of ethics/conduct/honor that they choose to live by. They determine their actions based on this code. The Knights of legends were considered to be great because of their Code. Many of our well-known historical and fictional characters lived by codes that differentiated themselves from the masses.
This psalm is a basic code to live by. My question to you and to myself is: What code to you live by? What do you base your code on? Does your code make you more of a person or just one of the masses?