i worship You so the heavens above can hear

Sweet rest, and the Glory of heaven has found it's way to you dear, sweet, William.

Oh God, my heart is broken at the loss of you here ... You are missed so greatly, and it's barely been one full day... I can barely see through the tears....part sadness at the loss of one of my greatest friends, and part jealously that you are now with Jesus....

I can't stop listening to your music...just to hear your voice again. Had I known this day would be here I would have hugged you last Tuesday...despite all those tubes and hospital stuff... oh, Will.... what must it be like where you are today?!? No sadness, no pain, amazing worship...incredible Jesus....

Thank you for your friendship, your humor, your music, your love for Jesus. Thank you for being a faithful, truthful, man of God.

This is today's reading from "My Utmost for His Highest" -- timely...

Our Lord's Suprise Visits

A Christian worker’s greatest need is a readiness to face Jesus Christ at any and every turn. This is not easy, no matter what our experience has been. This battle is not against sin, difficulties, or circumstances, but against being so absorbed in our service to Jesus Christ that we are not ready to face Jesus Himself at every turn. The greatest need is not facing our beliefs or doctrines, or even facing the question of whether or not we are of any use to Him, but the need is to face Him.
Jesus rarely comes where we expect Him; He appears where we least expect Him, and always in the most illogical situations. The only way a servant can remain true to God is to be ready for the Lord’s surprise visits. This readiness will not be brought about by service, but through intense spiritual reality, expecting Jesus Christ at every turn. This sense of expectation will give our life the attitude of childlike wonder He wants it to have. If we are going to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious. In other words, we must stop using religion as if it were some kind of a lofty lifestyle-we must be spiritually real.
If you are avoiding the call of the religious thinking of today’s world, and instead are "looking unto Jesus" ( Hebrews 12:2 ), setting your heart on what He wants, and thinking His thoughts, you will be considered impractical and a daydreamer. But when He suddenly appears in the work of the heat of the day, you will be the only one who is ready. You should trust no one, and even ignore the finest saint on earth if he blocks your sight of Jesus Christ.

knowing

Who made up this rumor that life is easy... That relationships are easy... It is a lie.

I pray to eliminate superficial relationships from my life. By eliminate I don't mean 'trash' - I mean deepen, and to become further involved so those surface relationships no longer exist.

I suppose most relationships must begin as superficial, but there is something seriously wrong when we get too lazy, or too uncomfortable, to go deep...to be REAL.
In most dealings with people, we come to a point where the real truth is exposed.
And, trust me, in EVERY life there are skeletons, and cans of worms... And we can be known or we can be willing to know up to that point - because it's safe, but it's also superficial.

But, we must love through the painful point. Love to the end. REFUSE to let go though we truly know a person. Fragile love will love to a point, but Godly love...Godly love will burst through the closet or the can...and go on loving.

That, not a cup of coffee is real christian fellowship.

With people in our lives we must guard unity as sacred. We must attend to people who are brought into our sphere of influence, love them and care for them. It is our duty to help strengthen them in God, and perhaps most importantly...to be taught by them.

Everytime we are confronted by painful differences we have to crash through.

This I hope for myself.
This I long for others to do with me.
Be real... Exposing what we truly are is the only way to know and be known.