February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
3 posts
“Lord, have mercy on my rough and rowdy ways…
I’ll sing it over...”
– the head and the heart
“Love cannot exist in isolation: away from others, love bloats into pride. Grace...”
– Eugene Peterson
“If you don’t like to read you haven’t found the right book.”
– J. K. Rowling (via halfbloodmagic)
December 2011
2 posts
I don't usually post details of this nature.
Today I had a lump removed from my left breast that was about the size of a pingpong ball. It is assumed to be benign by the doctors, so there should be nothing to worry about. I am posting, because I am incredibly grateful to have it removed. It was becoming uncomfortable, and it is just a relief that i don’t have to worry about this mysterious bump inside of me anymore.
I usually hate...
November 2011
9 posts
“we understand why children are afraid of darkness … but why are men afraid of...”
– plato. (via suzyhumanity)
“who except God can give you peace? has the world ever been able to satisfy the...”
– st. gerard majella. (via suzyhumanity)
oswald always gets me.
“If you seek great things for yourself - God has called me for this and that; you are putting a barrier to God’s use of you. As long as you have a personal interest in your own character, or any set ambition, you cannot get through into identification with God’s interests. You can only get there by losing forever any idea of yourself and by letting God take you right out into His...
“If we preach the effects of Redemption in human life instead of the revelation...”
– Sacramental Service, Oswald Chambers
“… utilize the common-sense circumstances God puts you in, and the...”
– The Undetected Sacredness of Circumstances, Oswald Chambers
“we are not sanctified for ourselves, we are called into the fellowship of the...”
– Ye Are Not Your Own, Oswald Chambers
October 2011
5 posts
“what you rejoice in is the thing that is your central sweetness and consolation...”
– redeemer fellowship
“we are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those...”
– oswald chambers, my utmost for his highest, october 1st
September 2011
3 posts
1 tag
2 tags
“A good marriage is the union of two forgivers.”
– Ruth Bell Graham (via therevolutionwillbeblogged)
(i’m not married, but i already see the truth of this).
August 2011
8 posts
““Yet lackest thou one thing; sell all that thou hast… and come,...”
– Oswald Chambers, Are You Discouraged In Devotion
1 tag
2 tags
7 tags
“The Cross stands for one thing for us - a complete and entire and absolute...”
– Oswald Chambers, The Cross in Prayer (a few days ago)
“The call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has...”
– Oswald Chambers, The Baffling Call of God (from a few days ago)
July 2011
10 posts
2 corinthians 12:9-10
if everyone stopped trying to be perfect on the outside,
we would actually see Christ in each other’s brokenness.
because when we are weak,
he is strong.
in fact, when we are weak,
he is PERFECT.
not because we are weak,
but because our weakness magnifies his perfection.
“The deepest cure is to be intellectually and emotionally staggered by the...”
– John Piper, Sex and the Supremacy of Christ (pt.2)
“It is inevitable that the human heart, which was made to be staggered with the...”
– John Piper, Sex and the Supremacy of Christ (pt.2)
Satan doesn’t fear your sin; he knows God can...
“Let us know; Let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the...”
– Hosea
“God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe...”
– John Piper, Sex and the Supremacy of Christ
“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from...”
– Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
Teaching girls that their appearance is the first... →
June 2011
5 posts
i need to put this crazy mind of mine to rest. it just runs and runs and runs.
fear.
The Lord is speaking to me so much recently, through my community and through His word. The constant theme is that HE WILL PROVIDE and that HE IS FAITHFUL. I’m reading Genesis and time after time the Lord shows His glory in the ways that He provides and is in control of literally everything. In Genesis 20, God literally closes women’s wombs until the people learn to fear Him and He is...
May 2011
4 posts
sometimes the spiritual battles going on around me are so much to bear. not in my own life (although sometimes), but in the lives of the people around me. i see disease, depression, homelessness, laziness, discouragement, unemployment. i don’t even know where to begin. i feel sick to my stomach.
i guess i’ll start with something i don’t do very often.
pray.
Lord, let your hope...
“if this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we...”
– {stephen colbert} (via suzyhumanity)