February 2012
44 posts
What if, Every time you stapled a piece of paper, the paper bled?
“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a...”
– Churchill (via davesingh)
Fear may keep us running, but it doesn’t help us move forward. Courage may keep us still, but at least we’re always standing.
“Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.”
– Psalm 51:10
The Power of Art
The Church needs artists because without art we cannot reach the world. The simple fact is that the imagination ‘gets you,’ even when your reason is completely against the idea of God. “Imagination communicates,” as Arthur Danto says, “indefinable but inescapable truth.” Those who read a book or listen to music expose themselves to that inescapable...
I am amazed by God’s grace.
“All a person needs is nothing, but very few people have that.”
– Timothy Keller
Even when it hurts.
LORD, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill?
He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong and casts no slur on his fellowman, who despises a vile man but honors those who fear the LORD, who keeps his oath even when it hurts, who lends his...
brother, brother, brother, be well.
balance…you can’t have balanced scales until something of worth is poured out onto unsteady surfaces, and is then picked at by foreign hands. Testing proves and produces.
WatchFitting as we approach the Day for Lovers Eternal.
A Meditation on Matt. 12:33-37 & James 1:22
If you know, then do.
Then what you know, will know you, and be you.
“For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.” - Jesus
When I read this, it makes me ask myself: what am I interested in talking about? What do I talk about with people? That’s where I know what’s inside my heart, what I love.
“95% of the time, everything is actually ok in the moment. What you’re...”
– Emma Stone
How is it, you can be so tender yet still strong in that way?
She laughed at me, my face in the mirror, then turned, and with one lash of her eye, she pointed to my confusion, “Shed those lines for new ones! Take him on, bring Him all you have, let him see you as He sees you.”
I did what she said. Shedding my lines along with tears he saw me as He saw me, and I looked in the mirror, and laughed.
You make me see color for what it is just like you BEAUTIFUL.
I am so amazed that God shows His grace tangibly through people too.
faith in God
includes faith
in His timing.
- Neal A. Maxwell
what happened?
