December 2011
2 posts
1 tag
december9.
Be willing to go out on a limb with Me. If that is where I am leading you, it is the safest place to be. Your desire to live a risk-free life is a form of unbelief. Your longing to live close to Me is at odds with your attempts to minimize risk. You are approaching a crossroads in your journey. In order to follow Me wholeheartedly, you must relinquish your tendency to play it safe.
Let Me...
November 2011
2 posts
“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we...”
– Anne Lamott
October 2011
2 posts
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. plus some.
“…I realized that for years I’d thought of love as something that would complete me, make all my troubles go away. I worshipped at the alter of romantic completion. And it had cost me, plenty of times. And it had cost most of the girls I dated too, because I wanted them to be something they couldn’t be. It’s too much pressure to put on a person. I think...
fear.
And the Lord is now calling me for a second time, affirming me, enabling me, encouraging me, challenging me all the way into fullness faith, hope, and love in the power of His Holy Spirit. Ignorant, weak, sinful person that I am, with easy rationalizations for my sinful behavior, I am being told anew in the unmistakable language of love, “I am with you, I am for you, I am in you. I expect...
September 2011
3 posts
9 tags
“Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people...”
– I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou (via word-collector)
5 tags
“And though it’s true the church must dissociate itself from sin, it can...”
– The Ragamuffin Gospel
August 2011
1 post
The fact that love does not operate according to the rules of power may help explain why God sometimes seems shy to use his power. He created us to love him, but his most impressive displays of miracle - the kind we may secretly long for - do nothing to foster that love.
Gouglas Hall puts it, “God’s problem is not that God is not able to do certain things. God’s problem is...
June 2011
2 posts
i dare you to
Cherish your solitude.
Take trains by yourself to places you’ve never been.
Sleep alone under the stars.
Learn how to drive a stick shift.
Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.
Say no whenever you don’t want to do something.
Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees.
Decide whether you want to be liked or...
May 2011
8 posts
“Let me try. I’ll try to paint you a picture. It’s the time of day when the sun...”
“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via ifiblogged)
April 2011
5 posts
March 2011
7 posts
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, “You owe...”
– Hafiz (Persian poet of the 1300s)
“‘This is my Son, the beloved; he enjoys my favor. Listen to him’. (Matthew 17)
...”
– Henri Nouwen (via tailhop)
WatchThe Power of Vulnerability.
Fish Tales: The Good News of a Broken System →
tailhop:
The system is broken. Praise God. Funny how many of us still live as if we want the system to be repaired. We just want it to be a bit nicer than before.
I’ve been thinking about the art of listening. When you don’t know what to do it is a good thing to spend some time listening (dreams are a…
choices.
I’m choosing important over necessary.
What’s necessary? Presentations, reading, quizzes, some rest before classes start up again. There’s always more to do for work or school, but sometimes you just need to be.. you. To say yes when you may have “thought better against it”, to do something that makes you smile from the inside.. from the very essence of you.
This...
August 2010
3 posts
“People say they ‘find’ love, as if it were an object hidden by a...”
– The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
“me: “Oh God, it’s not the way I had things planned.”
Him: But...”
– One of the best books I’ve read in a long while.
The love that comes from the Lord is healing, forgiving, fulfilling, and transforming.
- - “When you are unsure which course to take, totally submit your own judgement to that of the Spirit of God, asking Him to shut every door except...
Psalm 116
Father God,
One of your daughters is in the hands of an oppressor. A year after her first attempt to flee from this man, she has finally found strength to try again. It is awful the way one human can treat another - that her body is a tool for his success. God I ask that you rescue her physically first. Wrap her in the arms of the loving women awaiting her arrival.
” I love the...
June 2010
3 posts
“God has made me as bread for His chosen ones, and if it is necessary for me to...”
– Isaiah 28:28
autobiography
I still find each day too short for all the walks I want to take, all the thoughts I want to think, all the books I want to read, & all the friends I want to see.
May 2010
12 posts
“May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the...”
“If grace is an ocean then we’re all sinking.”
“You do not have to sit outside in the dark.
If, however, you want to look at...”
– Annie Dillard
assumptions.
There is a popular misconception that financial blessing is an indication of right standing before God. This leads to the judgement that people who are poor are thus outside of right relationship with God. The assumption is made that when poor people are saved, their financial problems will be cured. Those who hold this belief isolate people who are poor by placing unfounded judgment on their...
Luke.
was 9 years old.
Please pray for his family.
This is his blog.
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/lukejensen
“ I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter...”
– Mother Teresa
“The waves may be mountains
The fields battle plains.
And the earth be immersed...”
– Streams in the Desert