Life on Pursuit

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:  A time to be born, and a time to die;.../A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;.../ A time to keep silence and a time to speak;...A time for war, and a time for peace" (Ecclesiastes 3:8).          Have you ever heard of the saying that there is a season for everything? Well that saying  first came from the word of God and in this passage God is telling us that nothing on this earth lasts forever; events, situations, troubles and even times where things seem to go our way has an expiration date. I know that sounds harsh but just think about it, how would we grow? Life is not a straight line, there will be ups and downs but what is comforting to know is that God doesn't change and is present through the good times and the bad. I know that some people ...

Moonlight Under watchful gaze You follow me Lighting up the stage Waves crash into one another Violently slapping tiny grains Sunken footsteps fade away Roaring sound of you carries As something magical calls me out to sea I dive in underneath the moonlight ©      ~ Star Latty

"Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God: and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God/God is love" (1 John 4:7-8). Lately, I've been meditating on love and not the fairytale, romance and worldly love that we learn about through movies and story books. It's a love that is above it all, a grander more powerful kind of love... and that's the love of God.  Love first manifested when God gave his only son to the world so that we may be forgiven of our sins. Jesus died for people that hated him, shunned him, beat him and he still said Lord forgive them, they do not know what they are doing! Can you imagine that? No man on earth would ever do this and that's why God's love is the greatest! That is why as believers "we love him because he has loved us first" (1 John 4:19), even when we didn't deserve it.  His love is perfect, no other love of this world can ever compare to God's love and because we are his children ...

As I stare out into the horizon where the last rays of sunlight covers over the city, I think to myself... My time is coming to an end here and this first new chapter is finishing, what's next for me? Stepping out of the airport into the fresh crisp Canadian air I felt strange but it was almost like I never left and the months I've stayed in Spain was a long dream. Even when I went to the airport saying goodbye to my two good friends Jess and Olga, we couldn't even fathom that I was really leaving this beautiful country.  To say my time in Spain was a good decision and experience is an understatement. I'm not trying to be over-dramatic here but I would say it was a life-changing decision and experience because it opened my eyes to so much possibilities and different ways of living. I feel like I was ignorant to the rest of the world living in Canada and just experiencing the western lifestyle. The only places I've ever traveled outside of Canada to i...