May 2012
39 posts
“We have a saying in India, ‘Everything will be all right in the end, so if...”
– Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
RESTORATION.
No words today, but these.
“Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be...”
– – Jesus, Revelation 21:3b-5
He’s done something I never expected. He’s made me enjoy the taste of every second.
“The end of a matter is better than its beginning,
and patience is better than...”
– Ecclesiastes 7:8, 11:5
“The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won...”
– Harold Goddard (via eliotrausch)
Let my eyes follow my heart but let my heart follow my God and let my God always be the desire of all of me.
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Grace & Mercy
“Grace is when God gives us what we don’t deserve and mercy is when God doesn’t give us what we do deserve.”
—Anonymous. The best definition of grace and mercy I’ve ever heard.
“I am learning that even discomfort is grace. For only in discomfort is a birth...”
Woah, just saw this quote and it floors me:
“Don’t you know you are the only Jesus many people will ever see? In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God’s image and endanger an entire generation’s understanding of Jesus.” — Judah Smith #DatingDelilah (via modernhepburn)
“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose...”
– ― C.S. Lewis
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
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“Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go… But, of course,...
Nature vs Nurture But what to do when my nature IS to nurture yet I’m alone?
“If I may, so long as the woman you love lives, and lives for you, all the privilege I claim for my own sex, and it is not a very enviable one — you need not covet it — is that of loving longest when all hope is gone.”
–Anne, from Persuasion by Jane Austen
“Don’t burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of...”
– Romans 12:12 (Message)
Sometimes a dream seems too impossible to hope for. Is it insanity to hope anyway? I can’t seem to help it.
We are dust, not angels. Hearts of glass, not carbon. Wind, turn kindly, Wind, flow kindly Or our forms will break and fly in bits of loneliness.
“Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.” —Ephesians 5 (Message)
Ruminations
Trust in the LORD and do good; Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness. Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him, and He will do it. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light And your judgment as the noonday. Rest in the LORD and wait patiently for Him… –Ps. 37:3-7
It’s not in our...
I am not love I am pebbles of dust and emotion
I am not love deserving to be loved.
He is love Gives love and a lover to love.
I am not love I am pebbles.
1 John 4:8
A self-assured saint is of no value to God. He is abnormal, unfit for daily life, and completely unlike God. We are here, not as immature angels, but as men and women, to do the work of this world. And we are to do it with an infinitely greater power to withstand the struggle because we have been born from above.
If we continually try to bring back those exceptional moments of inspiration, it is...
