December 2011
1 post
October 2011
3 posts
September 2011
2 posts
1 tag
2 tags
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
8 posts
2 tags
1 tag
April 2011
1 post
One foot in and one foot back,
But it don’t pay to live like that.
– I and Love and You.The Avett Brothers.
February 2011
5 posts
Beauties!
mydelight:
Sometimes life feels so big and overwhelming and I start to lose sight of my purpose here… but then I look up, or down, or straight ahead, and there is beauty. Small, gentle, secret beauties - but they are there. Those beauties remind me that I am alive and existing in this crazy world. So I take pictures of them, in my silly attempts to capture the intense presence of beauty, and...
This abandon to the love of Christ is the one thing that bears fruit in this...
– Oswalt Chambers
January 2011
3 posts
1 tag
“Nothing good comes easily. You have to lose things you thought you loved, give up things you thought you needed. You have to get over yourself, beyond your past, out from under the weight of your future. The good stuff never comes when things are easy. It comes when things are all heavily weighted down like moving trucks. It comes just when you think it never will, like a shimmering Las...
December 2010
4 posts
letter to myself
Really? Are you really just sitting there? Sitting there saying, “Thy will be done” and not moving an inch? Not pulling away, creating distance, but not reaching, growing, pulling close either. Just sitting. Still. Quiet. No response because you aren’t even listening, let alone speaking.
Prayer is an action. Prayer is movement. Prayer is speaking and listening and responding...
1 tag
Love, love, loving this right now
Cold is the water
It freezes your already cold mind
Already cold, cold mind
And death is at your doorstep
And it will steal your innocence
But it will not steal your substance
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But you are not alone in this
And you are not alone in this
As brothers we will stand and we’ll hold your hand
Hold your hand
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And you are the mother
The mother of your baby child
The one to whom you...
I love falling asleep to the sound of rain
November 2010
6 posts
October 2010
3 posts
I feel the winds of God today
I feel the winds of God today; today my sail I lift,
Though heavy, oft with drenching spray, and torn with many a rift;
If hope but light the water’s crest, and Christ my bark will use,
I’ll see the seas at His behest, and brave another cruise.
It is the wind of God that dries my vain regretful tears,
Until with braver thoughts shall rise the purer, brighter years;
If cast on...
September 2010
2 posts
And so, here we go bluebird
Back to the sky on your own
Oh, let him go bluebird
Ready to fly
You and I
Here we go…
August 2010
3 posts
And this is my prayer in the battle
And triumph is still on it’s way
I...
July 2010
6 posts
My goal is God Himself, not joy nor peace,
Not even blessing, but Himself, my...
– Oswalt Chambers
Why do we always keep our
deepest hurts in the back of the attic?
Instead of...
– “Something Beautiful” - Julia Stine