October 2011
2 posts
iSad.
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July 2011
5 posts
“People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is...”
“…and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy...”
“Evil imprisons, good sets free. Evil is tired, good is full of vigour. The one...”
The bed was unkempt from a lazy day of nothingness.
An uneccessary amount of pillows covered the bed,
Five, to be exact.
Not to mention the body pillow she held tightly to in the night,
Dreaming it was someone she hadn’t quite met yet.
At least not that she knew of.
And would she know when she did meet him?
Would he know when he met her?
But those were questions for another morning. Not...
June 2011
1 post
Jerry Brito: Top ten myths about introverts →
jerrybrito:
Myth #1 – Introverts don’t like to talk. This is not true. Introverts just don’t talk unless they have something to say. They hate small talk. Get an introvert talking about something they are interested in, and they won’t shut up for days.
Myth #2 – Introverts are shy. Shyness has nothing to…
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
1 post
“Oh, I’m a wandering soul
I’m still walking the line that leads me...”
– Do You Love Me Enough? -Switchfoot
February 2011
4 posts
“Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls,
Come hither, the dances are done,...”
– An excerpt “Song from Maud” by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
This morning I woke up to this in my inbox. My boyfriend sure does know how to melt my heart so early in day.
January 2011
2 posts
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via kari-shma)
December 2010
2 posts
“If you’re feeling frightened about what comes next… Don’t. Embrace the...”
– Julia Brown, Everwood (via fly4freedom)
November 2010
2 posts
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of...”
“It is not the critic who counts: nor the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Theodore Roosevelt (via quote-book)
September 2010
2 posts
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
July 2010
4 posts
And now...a poem.
So tonight at small group, i was presented with a poem by the lovely Rachel Burcham. It was my going-away gift, given to me in honor of the “poem-ness” (words of Rachel) that i had brought to our group. Dear Rachel, although i had always slightly wanted a boy to be the first one to write me a poem…i would not have this any other way ;) You are far superior to any boy, haha....
Everything is beautiful.
Right now i’m sitting on a wooden bench on my front porch watching a storm come in. I have my journal, a pencil, and the mist of rain drops against my legs. At this moment, i need nothing more. And yet i need it all.. In nine days i’ll be on a plane headed for South America & this memory will most likely only be a faint one. But i’m not in a hurry to pass this moment up....
Bangladesh 5/19/2010
Today I went with the Class 9 girls to a prayer meeting at a woman’s house in the village. Going into the village is one of my favorite parts of this trip. I love going out & meeting new people I never knew existed before that moment. When someone says, “We’re going to ‘so & so’s’ house for prayer”, what they really mean is ‘so &...
Travel
“There’s a level of travel that you can achieve wherein you almost cease to exist as you have been known to yourself. I don’t mean it as in a feeling of meaningless, or emptiness, but a sort of new kind of existence takes place. You become just particles in motion, closer in frequency to a ghost or something. You might think what I’m writing is crazy, and if you do, I suggest you grab a...
June 2010
1 post
Love is a Road.
I came across this article today while sitting in an office waiting for another meeting. I think it is one of the most beautiful, raw, and moving poems I have read in a long time…I had to hold back tears as I read. So many thoughts came to mind as I read…. Strength. Hope. Forgiveness. Love. A Future. Identity. Worth. A Voice. New. Springing from a poetry workshop, several HIV positive...
April 2010
1 post
Through Painted Deserts
“No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath. It’s a living book, this life. It folds out in a million settings, cast with a billion beautiful characters, and it is almost over....
March 2010
3 posts
““I know of a man who lives on the other side
On the other side of this...”
– Vagabond lyrics by Bethany Dillon
““God beckons me to follow Him to that place of weakness where I risk the...”
– Gary Haugen
February 2010
2 posts
““Treat a man as he appears to be & you make him worse. Treat a man as...”
2-1-10.
I am sitting in a comfy, overstuffed chair in front of the glass doors of Guynes’ lobby. I am blasted with chilly February air every time they are opened by passerby’s searching for an escape from this “bitter cold” Texas weather. But despite the frost that is forming on these window panes, my heart is full of warmth tonight. It is full of gratitude, love, and awe as I sit...
January 2010
6 posts
“LOVE. Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination. LOVE.”
– The Greatest Thing in the World by Henry Drummond
Christ of the Indian Road...
“—As he came among men he did not try to prove the existence of God — he brought him. He lived in God and men looking upon his face could not find it within themselves to doubt God.
—He did not argue, as Socrates, the immortality of the soul — he raised the dead.
—He did not argue that God answers prayer — he prayed, sometimes all night, and in the...
30 thank you notes.
Lately I haven’t been so optimistic about life. Basically, I don’t like all this change. And then I realized how absolutely wonderful my life really is & I felt stupid for being so negative. So last night when I couldn’t sleep I decided to start being thankful for some of the good things in life, instead of only noticing the things I wish were different. So here are some of...
December 2009
8 posts
“This they claim at the front door…
Thirty dollars and you can have all you want...”
– Me
“Father, I want to know You, but my cowardly heart fears to give up its toys. I...”
– A.W. Tozer—The Pursuit of God
“We’re in the land of in between
Torn between two melodies
No longer knowing...”
– Me.
“So do not seek to hide from the cross. Do not accept an easy way. Do not allow...”
– A.W. Tozer—The Radical Cross
Reasons Why Jake Berry is Actually a Female...
I stumbled upon this today as I was looking for a paper I had written & it brought me so much joy that I thought I’d share. (P.S. He helped write this.)
1. He’s pretty.
2. He constantly makes sandwiches for people.
3. He can almost cry on cue.
4. He desires to be a school teacher.
5. Long. Flowing. Hair.
6. He discusses his long, flowing hair.
...
Matthew 5
Jesus refused to have the Kingdom for Himself. He wanted it for the poor, the sorrowful, the meek, the least of these. For me. For you.
““There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love...”
– C.S Lewis
..........
it never lasts long, this feeling.
not sure what to think.
maybe i should
s.t.o.p.
thinking.
yeah, that sounds good..
November 2009
6 posts
Railroads & Streams
For those who don’t know, I am assistant leading a missions trip to Bangladesh this summer. I don’t think I truly knew what I was signing up for when I filled out the application, but I knew that the Lord was in it. It has been so entirely overwhelming at times & I have often asked myself why on earth I willingly applied for such a responsibility. But then the Lord does something incredible in...
