Warning: this post may be offensive to ultra-conservative Christians and there are some words (although they are not profanity) you may not want to read considering the topic. I have no problem with it personally, but I’m aware some more sensitive people might.
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emily if you see this, this is our goal for this summer.
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"When you are called to do something radical for God many people in excitement will make statements like “we’re with you”. Yet often times on the battlefield you will face the giants alone. The very definition of a forerunner suggests that at times you will be the only voice, and at times the only one in the fight. It’s when the first giant falls that others will join in the pursuit of the enemy. Don’t let the lack of support or fellowship on the battlefield stop you from throwing rocks at the giants. Others are waiting and watching to see you rise up courageously. Your courage and your passion will draw them to take their first steps onto the battlefield. You were created to live radically just as Christ did and He will never leave you or forsake you!"Nic Billman (via loveismycommandment)
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"I wish we would take Him at His word. When He says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When He says we’re valuable, let’s believe Him. When He says we’re provided for, let’s stop worrying."Max Lucado (via godmoves)
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"I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong."Jane Austen (via thatkindofwoman)
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“…though we can bring some light to the darkness, we cannot bring the day.”
My Time in Babylon: Part IV
Writing my way through this life. My response to the tragedy at Newton, CT, and to how others responded.
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"I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go."Jeffrey McDaniel (via quiescent-girl)
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December 7, 2012
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this needs to be my reality.
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Figure studies by Stuart Gilbert.
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"God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’"Louie Giglio (via littlethingsaboutgod)
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When a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook Olympia, Wash., in 2001, shopowner Jason Ward discovered that a sand-tracing pendulum had recorded the vibrations in the image above.
Seismologists say that the “flower” at the center reflects the higher-frequency waves that arrived first; the outer, larger-amplitude oscillations record the lower-frequency waves that arrived later.
“You never think about an earthquake as being artistic — it’s violent and destructive,” Norman MacLeod, president of Gaelic Wolf Consulting in Port Townsend, told ABC News. “But in the middle of all that chaos, this fine, delicate artwork was created.”
SCIENCE ART
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"You know the Bible also says “Kill.” Yeah there are some words before it and some words after it, but if you’re going to take one thing out of context you might as well take the rest of it out of context."My wonderful father (via inkstain)
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Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning. You have not originated them, but they start talking to you, they bring back the problems of yesterday, etc.
Somebody is talking. Who is talking? Your self is talking to you. Now this man’s treatment was this; instead of allowing this self to talk to him, he starts talking to himself. ‘Why art thou cast down, O my soul?’ he asks. His soul had been depressing him, crushing him. So he stands up and says: ‘Self, listen for a moment, I will speak to you.’…
The main art in the matter of spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself. You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself. You must say to your soul: ‘Why art thou cast down’– what business have you to be disquieted?
You must turn on yourself, upbraid yourself, condemn yourself, exhort yourself, and say to yourself: ‘Hope thou in God’– instead of muttering in this depressed, unhappy way. And then you must go on to remind yourself of God, Who God is, and what God is and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.
Then having done that, end on this great note: defy yourself, and defy other people, and defy the devil and the whole world, and say with this man: ‘I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance, who is also the health of my countenance and my God.’
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