May 2012
13 posts
“We rarely hear about the little acts of love that exist between partners, where...”
– “Three Cheers for Boring Love,” by Chelsea Fagan
(via vbtwns)
But Even If Not
“We all know that most beloved verse in the scripture, ‘God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.’ But we also know that, if it was that simple, we wouldn’t need the rest of the Bible. The poignancy of what Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego say to Nebuchadnezzar is finally not just what we say to a skeptic, or to...
“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”—Will Smith
“You are the content of your character. You are the ambitions that drive you. You...”
– (via southbysea)
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing —...”
– Zig Ziglar (via taylorcthomas)
ashleydonahue:
I love people’s hearts. Love them. The broken and the delighted and the joyful and the lost. If I could listen to people all day I think I would. Because a lot of the time, more than anything, people need someone to talk to. They need someone to listen.
Amen to this.
April 2012
11 posts
“Since when is love about deserving?”
– Jan Karon (via hellomoon)
southbysea:
This is the song Eili, Eili if you...
the stories we tell ourselves →
“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement… get up in the morning and...”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Among the seven deadly sins of medieval lore was sloth (acedia) — a state of hard-bitten, joyless apathy of spirit. There is a lot of it around today in Christian circles; the symptoms are personal spiritual inertia combined with critical cynicism about the churches and supercilious resentment of other Christians’ initiative and enterprise.
Behind this morbid and deadening condition often...
Godthings: “I remember the morning when I came to... →
godthings:
“I remember the morning when I came to this passage: ‘Love is patient, love is kind.’ It’s actually a verb: ‘Love does patience.’ Or better yet, the KJV: ‘love suffers long.’ Patience is what you show when your computer doesn’t work. Long-suffering is what you show when people don’t work, and…
Chewing on this today.
South by Sea: Christus Resurrexit →
southbysea:
Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23; John 20:1-9; Acts 10:34, 37-43; Colossians 3:1-4
Let all pious men and all lovers of God rejoice in the splendor of this feast; let the wise servants blissfully enter into the joy of their Lord; let those who have borne the burden of Lent now receive their pay,…
South by Sea: Holy Saturday →
southbysea:
Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” Having said this, he breathed his last. —Luke 23:46
On this Holy Saturday we as the body of Christ are left in silence with only the profound echoes of His last words. Today, we take one step…
South by Sea: Good Friday/Pessach →
southbysea:
Isaiah 52:13-53:12, Psalm 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-17, 25, Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9, John 18:1-19:42
The culmination of this week is upon us and rests heavily— the day in which our Lord was crucified for the atonement of sin. Thus, today is NOT a day of celebration and victory, but today is a…
South by Sea: Maundy Thursday →
southbysea:
Exodus 12:1-8, 11-14; Psalm 116:12-13, 15-16bc, 17-18; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; Luke22
Last year, a dear friend of mine filled in for me as I was with some friends and led a small Maundy Thursday get together-she wrote tonight’s blog. It is almost 2 AM here in…
March 2012
7 posts
48 hours
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other...
9 days.
I’ve heard it happens to everyone, and I think it has finally hit me!
After working almost non-stop for about 12 hours straight on last minute wedding details, I’m ready to say “stick a fork in me”. Hearing words like “florist”, “bustle”, and “seating charts” have officially set me on edge. Only nine days to go, but thought of making any...
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes...”
– Anais Nin (via rsf)
Love this. 10 days 10 days 10 days!!!!
We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, viz. into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
-The Love of God—The Ministry of the Unnoticed,
Recent Thoughts
Life would be easier if everyone told the truth.
The last two weeks have been terrible. Straight up terrible.
I finish my MSLE on Saturday at 3:00. A bright spot in an otherwise terrible time.
I miss Jenn Brown.
I’m so excited to get married. Another bright spot. 16 days to go.
I finished my second marathon on Sunday. Much, much better than the first!
Recently, I’ve gotten back...
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the...”
February 2012
5 posts
Mother Teresa's Nobel Prize Lecture. Amazing.
As we have gathered here together to thank God for the Nobel Peace Prize I think it will be beautiful that we pray the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi which always surprises me very much - we pray this prayer every day after Holy Communion, because it is very fitting for each one of us, and I always wonder that 4-500 years ago as St. Francis of Assisi composed this prayer that they had the same...
Thy Will be done
“The worst day of all was when it hit me that Jesus’ own most fervent prayer was refused: ‘Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.’ I must have read that verse or heard it a hundred times before without seeing or hearing. Maybe I didn’t want to see it. But then one day I saw it. It just knocked me in the head. This, I thought, is what is...
January 2012
19 posts
Bella
“ill faut soffrir pour être belle”
Beauty does not come without suffering. More on that later, but in order to get to the point, a little background story is necessary.
Next Wednesday, one of my fiancé and I’s good friends is traveling to SE Asia for six weeks with a couple of other gentleman to look sex slavery right in the face. When he first told us that he was going, I freaked out a little....
Godthings: “It is probably impossible to love any... →
godthings:
“It is probably impossible to love any human being simply ‘too much.’ We may love him too much in proportion to our love for God; but it is the smallness of our love for God, not the greatness of our love for the man, that constitutes the inordinacy. But even this must be refined upon. Otherwise…
Hitting me today.
“Awareness born of love is the only force that can bring healing and renewal. Out of our love for another person, we become more willing to let our old identities wither and fall away, and enter a dark night of the soul, so that we may stand naked once more in the presence of the great mystery that lies at the core of our being. This is how love ripens us -by warming us from within,...
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be...”
– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
crookedtooth:
I love because He loved me when I had nothing.
Beauty Creates Beauty →
One of Zach & I’s good friends is traveling to SE Asia to do some amazing work with trafficked victims and to document their stories. If you are interested in donating to their work or saying a prayer for them you can check them out here.
Your gifting & charisma will mean NOTHING if your character is faulty.
TRUTH.
in everything there is a season
“I believe that we ought so to love and trust God in our lives, and in all the good things that he sends us, that when the time comes (but not before!) we may go to him with love, trust, and joy. We ought to find and love God in what he actually gives us; if it pleases him to allow us to enjoy some overwhelming earthly happiness, we mustn’t try to be more pious than God himself and allow our...
“When I think of the incredible, incomprehensible sweep of creation above me, I have the strange reaction of feeling fully alive. Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could...