July 2012
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“Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person...”
– Stargirl (Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli)
If I could love God and seek God’s favor as much I seek the love and favor of those around me, how different would my life be?
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I know God loves me and favors me. If I could do the same and not be consumed by this earthly desire, how much easier would this become?
“I want all these young people to be getting a higher education, and I don’t want...”
– President Obama today, keeping it real (via barackobama)
In Christ I'm Not a Sinner
mchoi89:
“There is an entire psychological substructure that, due to the Fall, is a near-constant emission of relational leveraging, fear-stuffing, nervousness, score-keeping, neurotic controlling, anxiety-festering silliness that is not something I say or even think so much as something I breathe. You can smell this on people, though some of us are good at hiding it. And I’m seeing more and...
making progress.
me: I'm not completely over it. But I feel like this is a huge hump I climbed
Jenni: yeah. nobody expects you to be 100% over it especially just after youve made it over the hump! it's a good analogy isnt it? climbing the hill is freaking hard as hell! getting to the top is rewarding as hell. but then climbing back down is a relief, but also scary. but i always feel better climbing down a staircase than going up....
“These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.” —C.S....
“Though our feelings come and go, his love for us does not. It is not wearied by...”
– CS Lewis
My God is bigger than all my fears.
While I struggle to make peace with that statement as of late, I will not stop proclaiming it.
