"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken... The only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is hell.... We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to him...throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken and if he chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it" - C.S. Lewis
"When you are happy, so happy that you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn with Him to praise and gratitude, you will be - or so it feels - welcome with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is in vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside." Why is He so present a commander in our time of prosperity and so very absent a help in time of trouble?"
- C.S Lewis
About Me
- Pastor Ben Fleming
- I enjoy my garden at home. It is a challenge in Nevada to find the plants that will grow and come back year after year. I ride a road bike. Five years ago I started riding with my friend Andy Getas because of stress and chest pains. In 2007, I rode the DEATH RIDE with Andy and completed 4 mountain passes.