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There's a Chupacabra in my backyard?
Ok, so I had never even heard of this mysterious creature called a "chupacabra" until I lived in Mexico, but now it seems like every other day there is a headline on my AOL homepage about this mythical creature. This thing is probably the ugliest thing I have ever seen, but it never seems to look the same when I pull up the picture. Maybe the creature varies in appearance across the regions it's found? Strange. However, I recently came across a report and picture of one that was found here in Minnesota and I have to say its probably the ugliest of all the chupacabras I have seen. Well Minnesota I guess we drew the short end of the stick when it comes to chupacabra species.
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When There's a Burning in Your Heart...
When there's a burning in your heart, an endless yearning in your heart.
Build it bigger than the sun. Let it grow, let it grow.
Build it bigger than the sun. Let it grow, let it grow.
When there's a burning in your heart don't be alarmed
When there's a doubt in your mind, and you're thinking all the time. Framing rights into wrongs. Move along, move along.
When there's a burning in your heart, and you think it'll burst apart. Oh there's nothing to fear. Save the tears, save the tears.
And if you feel just like a tourist in the city you were born then it's time to go and define your destination. There's so many different places to call home.
God gives each of us a burning in our hearts. He gives each of us a passion first for Him and second for our neighbor. When we are not satisfying these passions, when we aren't feeding those yearnings we will always feel that we are missing something in our lives. We will have a burning in our hearts that will consume us if we don't let them out and express them.
God desires that we stoke that fire, that burning, that passion, to grow it, to feed it, to let it out and allow it to blaze. Once we have established our passion for God and allowed that fire to burn and blaze the Lord speaks our passion for our neighbor into our hearts. He starts the fire for our neighbor and once he does he expects us to stoke that fire as well and allow that passion to burn in our hearts. For some that passion may be for the orphaned, for others it may be for the outcast, and still for others it may be the leper. It looks different for each of us, because we were each uniquely created to minister to our neighbor. Once we recognize this our hearts are burdened for our neighbor, and they feel like they might burst for all the passion we have and for the sorrow we feel, but there is nothing to fear because the first passion, our relationship with the Lord, will save us and will sustain us.
It is inevitable that once we have our passion spoken into our lives Satan will immediately try to plant doubt and anxiety about the task we are called to. Many try to ignore the passion because of this and try to live "normal" lives in denial of who they really are, but in the end we cannot. Sometimes for some of us like the song says we will feel like tourists in the city we were born because we weren't meant to remain in our hometown. Sometimes we must step out of the boat and into the inheritance we were called to in order to receive blessing and resources. We are always called to take risks.
When there's a burning in your heart, don't ignore it, instead foster it, grow it and explore it to bring glory to the Lord. Step out into the inheritance for which he has called you.
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