December 2010
71 posts
those who have been set free.
sometimes i just wish all the pain, fear, doubt, and shame that those i love experience would just be lifted and placed on me. i feel like i have been there and now, having been freed, know that i can escape. but sometimes they don’t know they can. they feel so hopeless, helpless, and confused. and it crushes my heart like nothing else. i know how miserable they feel. i would take that from...
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely...”
– E.B. White
Deep Church →
“i will live without fear and seek wisdom instead.”
– gianna jessen
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Can I just say that I am absolutely head over...
These are changing my life. →
“You called, You cried out, You shattered my deafness, You flashed, You shone,...”
– Augustine
“Even if I die, let me see your face lest I die.”
—St. Augustine
Video: What Warms Your Soul →
“Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the...”
– Psalm 27:14 (via octoberdressica)
“And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts...”
– Phillippians 4:7 (via octoberdressica)
Deuteronomy 6
4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. [2] 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you...
The Poet is like that wild inheritor of the cloud, A rider of storms, above the range of arrows and slings; Exiled on earth, at bay amid the jeering crowd, He cannot walk for his unmanageable wings. ~ Charles Baudelaire
i’m in rare form and feeling very sappy lately. can you tell?lol
October Jess: This year, never have i ever... →
octoberdressica:
loved my friends like I love my family
been able to see my family as my friends
been so successful at making people mad at me
sought God’s favor more than my friends’
been so adventurous
been so stupid
been so outgoing
been so shy
felt so much Grace
been so worried about my future
hated…
“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel...”
– T.S. Eliot
“I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against...”
– Joan of Arc
“Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded...”
– Joan of Arc
1 John 2:4-6
Whoever says, ” I know him” but does not keep His commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word , in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides on him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
“Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it never can be...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“We can’t wait for conditions to be perfect. Nor can we wait for things to...”
– Charles R. Swindoll
“To act on the light one has is almost the only way to more light.”
– C.S.Lewis
from Ray Vanderlaan
“Yet we all can imagine the big male lion, roaring in dominance over his territory. And even the female lion, as she is protecting her cubs, that ferocious, insane growl that no one will approach. There is another kind of roar, and the Hebrew word is ‘Hagah” This is the roar/growl that a lion makes over its prey, after he has made fresh kill: his front paws are on it, he is just about to...