Isaiah 26:8

"Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws we wait for you: your name and renown are the desires of our hearts"

Everything

I was at my sister's church in Leeds on Sunday (http://www.mosaic-church.org.uk/) which is a fantastic vibrant and growing church. They have what looks like a great conference coming up called 'Everything' and here's a description of it...

'The Earth is the Lord’s and everything in it' - Psalm 24:1
"The gist of the conference is that Everything - not just the ‘sacred’ elements of culture, but everything - belongs to God. And as His people, we are called to get involved and have a positive influence on society."

I think that the prayer 'Your Kingdom come, your will be done' demands our whole lives; that we will seek God in all things-our work, our sleep, our play, our social, our pain, our suffering, our joy, essentially just where ever we are, whatever's happening, whatever we're doing.

"Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labour in the Lord is not in vain"-1 Corinthians 15:58b

The Hound of Heaven.

(Talking about the poem 'Hound of Heaven' by Francis Thompson)

'The name is strange. It startles one at first. It is so bold, so new, so fearless. It does not attract, rather the reverse. But when one reads the poem this strangeness disappears. The meaning is understood. As the hound follows the hare, never ceasing in its running, ever drawing nearer in the chase, with unhurrying and imperturbed pace, so does God follow the fleeing soul by His Divine grace. And though in sin or in human love, away from God it seeks to hide itself, Divine grace follows after, unwearyingly follows ever after, till the soul feels its pressure forcing it to turn to Him alone in that never ending pursuit.'
—The Neumann Press Book of Verse, 1988

Jesus. The Hound of Heaven.