something new...video update #1!

here is the full excerpt that i read from.

February 4

I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land. (Isaiah 58:14)

One of the first rules of aerodynamics is that flying into the wind quickly increases altitude. The wings of the airplane create more lift by flying against the wind. How was this lesson learned? It was learned by watching birds fly. If a bird is simply flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind. But if it senses danger, it turns into the wind to gain altitude, and flies up toward the sun.

The sufferings of life are God's winds. Sometimes they blow against us and are very strong. They are His hurricanes, taking our lives to higher levels, toward His heavens.

Do you remember a summer day when the heat and humidity were so oppressive, 

you could hardly breathe? But a dark cloud appeared on the horizon, growing 

larger and larger, until it suddenly brought a rich blessing to your world. 

The storm raged, lightning flashed, and thunder rumbled. The storm covered your 

sky, the atmosphere was cleansed, new life was in the air, and your world was 

changed.

Human life works exactly on the same principle. When the storms of life appear, 

the atmosphere is changed, purified, filled with new life, and part of heaven 

is brought down to earth. selected

Facing obstacles should make us sing. The wind finds its voice not when rushing 

across an open sea but when it is hindered by the outstretched limbs of a pine 

tree or broken by the strings of an aeolian wind harp. Only then does the harp 

have songs of power and beauty. Send your soul, which has been set free, sweeping 

across the obstacles of life. Send it through the relentless forests of pain 

and against even the smallest hindrances and worries of life, and it too will 

find a voice with which to sing. selected

Be like a bird that, halting in its flight,

Rests on a limb too slight.

And feeling it give way beneath him singsKnowing he has wings.