Melanie Irizarry > Recent Status Updates

Listening to it this year. Very sweet and insightful and glorifying to God.

Pretty good so far!

“Here’s where the certainty is: my imperfections will never override God‘s promises. God‘s promises are not dependent on my ability to always choose well, but rather on his ability to use well.”

“ if I’m trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I can fail. If I’m trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways he’ll use this, whether I fail or succeed.”

“Oh my darlin oh my darlin oh my darling Clementine”

“for guidance on prayer, Lawrence now looks to the passage in John 15 in which Jesus holds up the image of a vine and branches. The branch bears fruit not by striving or agonizing simply by “abiding” or resting.”

“ teach me, oh God, so to use all the circumstances of my life Today that they may bring forth in me the fruits of holiness rather than the fruits of sin.”

Started listening to audio cause my library book was due. RIP. I gotta finish a book already

“Forget past failures, forget recurring, sins, forget feelings of inferiority, instead open your mind to God, who cannot fill what has not been emptied”

When we’ve done what we need to do to acquire the knowledge, and inside of truth, then the discernment of that truth is there… We have to put our hearts in our minds, in places where wisdom gathers, not scatters.

Never is a woman so fulfilled as when she chooses to underwhelm her schedule, so she can let God overwhelm soul.

Had to take a break from politics for a pumpkin spice latte

“When I really want something, I strive and persist…. I’ll do whatever it takes. Do I show the same spirit in prayer?”

“Why creation? free will? Why human history in the onslaught of time? From the beginning, before the beginning, God willed to share with other creatures the love and fellowship -the life- enjoyed in the Godhead before creation, now, and forever. Despite all that has happened and is about to happen, God is committed to restoring creation to its original design, to regaining perfect intimacy and love with humans”

“I’m so confused and troubled by this wedge. I’m desperate to feel close with her, but also desperate for that closeness to be on my terms, not hers. Iwant her to know me for who I’m becoming. I want her to allow my growth. I want her to want me to be me. But that feels more like a fantasy than a possibility, for now at least. So for now, I lie.”

“Fame has put a wedge between Mom and me that I didn’t think was possible. She wanted this. And I wanted her to have it. I wanted her to be happy. But now that I have it, I realize that she’s happy and I’m not. Her happiness came at the cost of mine. I feel robbed and exploited.”

Wow this is so heartbreaking. Like what???? What is this relationship dynamic and who is looking out for Jeanette? This poor child carrying her family on her shoulders just to jump through hoops for mom?? What??

“I felt all of the excitement of a new love, a healing one, a second chance with someone you’d almost forgotten about. And the pain when their real life came to call, the agony of knowing there was history with someone else, a relationship you couldn’t touch.”

“I knew Gus. I knew his life was messy. I knew that his walls were so thick it would take years to chisel through them, and that his mistrust of the world went nearly core deep…When it came down to it, I knew exactly who Gus Everett was, and it didn’t change a thing. Because even though he would probably never learn to dance in the rain, it was Gus I wanted. only Gus. Exactly Gus.”