June 2013
82 posts
“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?”
—Cloud Atlas (via faltered-alter-ego)
“Tell the young, tell the poor, tell the aged, tell the ignorant, tell the sick, tell the dying — tell them all about Christ. Tell them of His power, and tell them of His love; tell them of His doings, and tell them of His feelings; tell them what He has done for the chief of sinners; tell them what He is willing to do until the last day of time; tell it to them over and over again. Never be tired of speaking of Christ. Say to them broadly and fully, freely and unconditionally, unreservedly and undoubtingly, ‘Come unto Christ, as the penitent thief did; come unto Christ, and you shall be saved.’”
—J. C. Ryle (via -dejalenae-)
“It’s the in between that drives us mad.”
—Ann Voskamp (via thatkindofwoman)
I Always Knew
The Vaccines
‘Cause it’s you
Oh, it’s always you
Oh, I always knew
Oh, it’s you
“When I say, ‘I love you,’ it’s not because I want you or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You’re a heck of a person.”
—Joss Whedon (via llae)
Listen
The Lumineers - The Dead Sea
You told me I was like the Dead Sea
You’ll never sink when you are with me
Oh, Lord, I’m your Dead Sea
Whoa, I’m like the Dead Sea
The nicest words you ever said to me
My obsessions.
Being filled completely on God
Sunny blue skies and feeling the sun of your face
Being in the ocean
Good acoustic music
Long skirts
When you laugh so hard your stomach is sore
Late night deep talks
Fresh fruit on a hot summer day
Being surrounded by people who love me and love God
Being understood
That moment after you run the best mile of your life and you feel weightless
Being told things about yourself that you didn’t think anyone noticed
“In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.”
—Robert Brault (via rainydaysandblankets)
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by
Wendell Berry (via isleofviewblog)
I go among trees and sit still.
All my stirring becomes quiet
around me like circles on water.
My tasks lie in their places
where I left them, asleep like cattle.
Then what is afraid of me comes
and lives a while in my sight.
What it fears in me leaves me,
and the fear of me leaves it.
It sings, and I hear its song.
Then what I am afraid of comes.
I live for a while in its sight.
What I fear in it leaves it,
and the fear of it leaves me.
It sings, and I hear its song.
After days of labor,
mute in my consternations,
I hear my song at last,
and I sing it. As we sing,
the day turns, the trees move.
by
Wendell Berry (via isleofviewblog)
“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
—Khalil Gibran, sea and foam (via shi3iya)
Haiti
I bought my plane ticket for Haiti last night. I will spend two weeks in Jacmel and I am beyond excited. One goal of mine this year was to leave the country for at least a week. I think I’m about to accomplish that. I can’t wait to help with the school, love on the children, spend time with the community and meet amazing disciples. Even thought I don’t know a lick of Creole I know God is going to use those people to change my heart.
“People need to be encouraged. People need to be reminded of how wonderful they are. People need to be believed in—told that they are brave and smart and capable of accomplishing all the dreams they dream and more. Remind each other of this.”
—Stacey Jean Speer (via rainydaysandblankets)
“Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal. Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep travelling honestly along life’s path.”
—Street Smarts: A Learning Process: 11 Things to Know at 25(ish)
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
—~C.S. Lewis (via dailydoseofstuf)
“Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but “Mom’s” probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened everyday and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breathe in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes.”
—The Winter of the Air (via sourwolfie)
Cause everywhere I seem to be
I am only passing through
I dream these days are about the sea
I always wake up feeling blue
Wait by Alexi Murdoch
“But I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both.”
—Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye, “An Origin Story” (via rebeccasusanne)
I love this spoken word. All about friendship
