love is the point:

Music that makes you want to jump up and dance.
Movies that make you want to laugh, cry or both.
Movie theathers where you can by fresh pop corn and watch movies described above.
People who are inspirating and supporting in crazy ideas, those that are always ready to share an adventure.
Good food, (spicy/sweet/salty/creamy/healthy) both cooking and eating will do.
Books that make me forget everything else and live in the story.
Israel.
Travelling, new countries, planes, buses, trains, ferries, passport controls, airports, timetables,..
New schoolbooks, empty notebooks, unopened packs with wide selection of crayons and colouring pencils,..
Lifestyle magazines with witty columns.
Blogs by people who have great insight.
Power and beauty of nature: lightning, storm, waves, sea, wind, snow, rainbows, waterfalls,..
Long-trough-the-nite conversations with friends, who are more like sisters and brothers.
Hospitality.
Steak fries.
Dancing.
Worshiping with flags.
Listening good music played live.
Photographing, specially trying to capture that one perfect shot of live gig or any once in a life time scene or moment.
Vanilla cafe latte.
Being part of a team where I am accepted and required.
Men who are warriors of God.
Women who are warriors of God.
God coming through in people.
Learning something new and using in succesfully.
Riding a horse so that I feel like we have a connection.
My little sisters and brother.
Insights.
Strawberry-banana juice and lebani on pita. Olives. Falafel (=Israeli cuisine)
Cutting-edge, still gentle prophecies.
Perfoming for live audience when I know what I'm doing.
Adrenaline rush.
Feeling after you have exercised with full capacity.
Dreams and visions and sharing those.
Sleeping.
Sunshine.
Chocolate.

And if...

It somehow made me think.
You say that what I call my rock, looks like
a wobbly swamp to you.
I know, people make mistakes,
but how you can't see His face behind them, how
can't you hear His voice past them?
I would never want to be judged by values of this world alone.
By longing eternity and knowing grace I can rejoice.
How did they hurt you, so you deny the call of the Lover
that pleads you to join the greatest adventure..?

And even, if in the end I'm proved to be mistaken,
my life I lived in hope and faith.

Shut up and don't even ask

• Am I allowed to ask, where are all the men of my generation going? Doesn't look like to heaven, atleast not to church... Why?
• What is future, where does it begin and end? If I look around me, isn't future everything I can see around me, atleast as far as I can see. If I can see to the fridge, a way to my fridge is my future, but I can't see what is inside, so I can only dream about it, not yet think about it as my future. Actions together with time make dreams my future and then suddenly my present and ..oops.. my past. Next ten seconds of my future are now present and ..4..3..2..1..so gone. Complicated?
• How do you measure success? I have so much people in crisis because of pressures of aging and growing up around me, that I am considering soon to found a anti-aging movement. Thought that again is something society tells us to do. So, come along, let's just tear down all kind of assumptions hanging in the air like this one: "before you are xx years old you are supposed to xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxx and accomplished such things as ........." All rubbish, may I say.

Let just ask our Lord, that as almighty and our Father, he would give us revelation of who we are, how he wants us to be and behave and spend our time and specially and specifically to reveal us our true identity, because eventually, identity becomes a destiny.

V.I.P.

It's been awhile, sorry guys, just blame the winter :)
Anyway, to my point, which is that...

..I wasn't created for loneliness, I am invited to fellowship.
..I was'nt created to be lost, I am invited to follow the way, the truth and the life.
..I wasn't created to be captured, I am invited to be captivating and in freedom.
..I wasn't created to darkness, I am invited to walk in the light.
..I wasn't created to worry about future, I am invited to live eternally.
..I wasn't created to sorrow and pain, I am invited to rejoice and praise.
..I wasn't created to be judged by values of this world, I am invited to grace by my Creator.

About desire - part 2

One of the deepest desires I have ever felt is to be accepted, recognized and connected. Acknowledged.

In some evanescent moments I have felt like somehow I have met that desire to fulfill.
I studied those moments and memories and felt there was a pattern there.
That pattern was three elements that had to be there:

1) a connection, touch to other person: closeness, sharing, complete understanding, back up and trust, creativity and freedom. "man+man" To have someone there, side by side to me, to make the picture complete.
2) working together towards mutual target, destination or goal, on an adventure or just being
3) frame of reference: community or circumtances to enable and support to put in practise the former two

And all this has to be joined together by heavenly glue. :) Dynamite pattern. "man+man+God"

About desire - part 1

Pleasure is often more about drugging ourselves than it actually is about enjoying ourselves. Wicked thought, but true. The things we do to avoid the ache often end up hurting us more than the ache itself. Living in a fallen world is not easy. And it is not even meant to be. It is a battle and a journey. It is a paradox.

I have began to believe that my desires will not be fully filled until the coming kingdom.
In here, only if I am able to surrender myself fully to Lord, and then covered by his authority and protection, I can see glimpse of what I was meant to be and my life was meant to turn out.

So random thoughts, but I keep on learning and coming back on this matter of desire.

//Elz

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