all the beautiful things

“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather...

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:30:17 -0400

“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, to all bravely await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.”
William Henry Channing (1810-1884)

where my girls at.

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:30:12 -0400

where my girls at.

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How I Interpret Osteen vs. How I Interpret God

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:28:41 -0500

Osteen: Live in your victory! God wants you to not suffer but prosper!
Jesus: Live in my victory. God knows you will suffer, but he will produce a glory for you that will outlast your current troubles.

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"Your head is a living forest full of songbirds."

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:02:26 -0500

“Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.”

- E.E. Cummings

Louise Bourgeois - Throbbing Pulse, 1944

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:53:24 -0500

Louise Bourgeois - Throbbing Pulse, 1944

I think this is an appropriate way to ring in the new year

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:07:28 -0500

I think this is an appropriate way to ring in the new year

Oh, our futures were written with crayons in coloring booksIt...

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:57:53 -0500

Oh, our futures were written with crayons in coloring books
It was misspelled and outside the lines and we loved how it looked
Like the crooked hem of your favorite childhood dress
And the holes in my jeans from years of carelessness
I know since we’ve grown, we ache for those memories
Honestly, nothing’s even compared to you next to me

When the words came to you for the first time, you knew you were hooked
And the pride that you felt at the last page of your first book
And the bravery I forced when I sang to an audience of three
Well, it took a million wrong notes just to find a single melody and key
I know since we’ve grown we plea for clarity
Honestly, nothing’s ever made sense til you were next to me

If time is money, then I’ll spend it all for you
I will buy you flowers with the minutes we outgrew
I’ll turn hours into gardens, planted just for us to take
I’ll be reckless with my days, building castles in your name

Since we’ve grown, we long for concrete things
Honestly, nothing’s felt so sure than when you were next to me

So lets cut down the red tape and gather up the pieces of our youth
Cause there’s nothing in this world we can’t fix with some scissors and glue

Stand up. Shut up. Man up. Watch the rest of Mark...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:44:00 -0500

Stand up. Shut up. Man up.

Watch the rest of Mark Driscoll’s sermon on Marriage and Men, or Marriage and Women. So good.

"May God bless you with a restless discomfort about easy answers, half-truths and superficial..."

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:24:53 -0500

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May God bless you with a restless discomfort about easy answers, half-truths and superficial relationships, so that you may seek truth boldly and love deep within your heart.

May God bless you with holy anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may tirelessly work for justice, freedom, and peace among all people.

May God bless you with the gift of tears to shed with those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, or the loss of all that they cherish, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and transform their pain into joy.

May God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you really CAN make a difference in this world, so that you are able, with God’s grace, to do what others claim cannot be done.

Amen.

”

- Franciscan Prayer.

Everyone has their obsessionconsuming thoughtsconsuming timethey...

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:31:01 -0500

Everyone has their obsession
consuming thoughts
consuming time
they hold high their prized possession
it defines the meaning of their life

You are mine.

They’re our objects of affection
that can mesmerize the soul
there is always one addiction
that just can not be controlled

You are mine.

I’d love bouldering too if I climb like this….holy...

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:13:39 -0400

I’d love bouldering too if I climb like this….holy wow.

4 year olds belong on the playground, not in lingerie ads.

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:12:23 -0400

4 year olds belong on the playground, not in lingerie ads. :

“When the human person lives contrary to their designed purpose, they dry up—losing the capacity for shame, truthfulness as a person diminishes. The result is not only dehumanization but spiritual death as well.”

"...I've never seen good intentions set a man free..."

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:05:35 -0400

No one is good, not even one.

The front pages of papers of children raped by rapist
Iraqi torture chambers and we the blame claim we’re blameless
Wrong all
And swelling up inside of us there’s this pride in us this arrogance
And our only line of defense is the sense that
Im not as half as bad as this friend of mine so I must be fine
We mean well don’t we
Yet I’ve never seen good intentions set a man free from
Hurt all.
This poor unfortunate soul
Filling a single void with toy after toy with girl after boy
How boring this wasn’t this meant to be Humanity’s life story
Warring with Good saying what have you done for me
Bought all
Hanging out for six hours marred beyond recognition
In complete submission to his father’s will still
A proclamation was made louder than the loudest temptation
With more beauty than all his creation
More eternal than eternity, more angelic than the heavenlies
It is done for you and bought with blood
Accept
Rejoice
For freedom has come.
-“Benediction”
Jimmy Needham

We ask, “How can you love ME?! In that moment where he...

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:02:26 -0400

We ask, “How can you love ME?! In that moment where he loves us right in that place we go, ‘I will chase you and pursue you and love you for the rest of my life. With every breath. With every cell in my body, I’ll pursue you from this moment on.’ And so we walk in here and celebrate not that we’re clean, but while we weren’t, he loved us.

-Matt Chandler

O God, I have tasted thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me thy glory, I pray thee, that so I may know thee indeed. Begin a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.” Then give me the grace to follow thee up this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

- A.W. Tozer

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