March 2012
9 posts
“You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing,...”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via yearslater)
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:...”
– Carl Jung (via girlwithoutwings)
Marriage
Marriage is not primarily for our happiness but for our sanctification. That is, we don’t realize how selfish, ill-disciplined, or unfinished we are until we have someone in our life who is so close to us that they respond to everything.
It’s like a mirror. They reflect our own issues. It’s the feedback that we never get or pay attention to as singles.
But not only do spouses...
Love
…is more than we
expressing with our many stanzas, lyrics, paintings, soft whispers, deep moanings, pitted feelings in the stomach, tears, laughs, smiles, screams, longing stares, gentle touches, corrections, interventions, handshakes, hugs, pats on the shoulder, home-cooked meals, bed-time stories, quality time, acts of service, gifts, caring words
can ever know without the understanding...
In God's Hands
Mind not being made of clay.
Be concerned about who and what you let shape you.
Always remember that we are moldable in the right hands.
Even as our self takes shape we must be given to the flames in order to be made strong.
If that process does not take place you may result as a dry unshaped lump of something that could have been beautiful.
‘Excellence is a worthy pursuit not just...
Sometimes we think that we need one big breakthrough but really, more often than not, we just need to keep clipping away at the threads of the many-braided ropes that bind us.
October 2011
2 posts
“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
– John Locke
Storyline
You know how when you’re watching a movie you see the storylines of different characters over lap and intertwine? Life is like that. And the relationships and friendships we have. In the movie, we can see what everyone’s up to but in real life… when we’re out of touch we have no idea, of course. But we know, that there are storylines running parallel to ours. And perhaps we...
September 2009
61 posts
“The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them,...”
– Sex and the City (via littlemiss)
“Think how you love me,” she whispered. “I don’t ask you to love me always like...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via loveyourchaos)
Advice
Has anyone ever come to you for advice, feeling very lost?
Have you ever really twisted your mind to figure out how to help?
Isn’t it kinda funny sometimes that after you’ve spent hours figuring stuff out with them things don’t go the way you thought you had agreed they would?
Heh.
Not sure how I feel about that.
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through...”
– Ellen Goodman
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense...”
– Oscar Wilde
“Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the...”
– Dame Edna Everage
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without...”
– Aristotle
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
– Will Rogers
“The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.”
– Author Unknown
You don't have a soul.
This first sentence caught me. The quotation of C. S. Lewis continues: You are a soul. You have a body.
Long! have I spoken of this too-large being that lives inside of me.
It’s amazing to think the inverse… that I! am infact the too-large grandness of a soul, trapped in this too-small body. Long has been the struggle to manipulate it such that my dreams would be manifested. Long...
You don't have a soul.
“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be...”
– C. S. Lewis
“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection:...”
– C. S. Lewis
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort...”
– C. S. Lewis
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival...”
– C. S. Lewis
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more...”
– C. S. Lewis
“An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.”
– C. S. Lewis
“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a...”
– C. S. Lewis
Off and On
People really aren’t good for themselves sometimes.
Not just when they’re lonely or in the bad decisions that they make for themselves… (well, more the latter which is often due to the former), but when it comes to relationships people endure such abuse. Mind you… I accept that there are no enduring relationships without forgiveness, obviously, and you won’t know if...
the only, the first, the One... the next?
I haven’t been out in a relationship for quite a while.
I also haven’t been comfortably single… ever, it seems.
I jumped and skipped from old flames to new acquaintances ‘til I found a crutch who could carry all of my baggage.
Almost halfway into my new Love I realised that I was barely over the last
and though the new became best but now is Past
the realness of it...
I’m afraid to get involved with anyone… because I tend to fuse myself… to my lover’s voice, to his skin, to his smell… and whenever he’s gone I’m missing large bits of myself…… and I guess every girl is kinda that way when she loves
It’s a great thing when he stays… to feel yourself in another body, to be welcome somewhere...
“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is...”
– C.S. Lewis (via reluctantbuddha)
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our...”
– Mark Twain (via myownmelt) (via verbadjectivenoun) (via quote-book)
youveescaped:
Magnet - Lay, Lady, Lay (Bob Dylan...
“… I look back on my life like a good day’s work, it was done and I...”
– Grandma Moses
“Music Television? You want me to PAY to get MUSIC... →
somethingintellectual:
IHadtoPostThis - Crazy Things Parents Say
“If you begin to sense your lostness and find yourself wanting to escape it, you...”
– Tim Keller (via peacenotwar) (via christ-follower)
If you give what you do not need, it isn't...
I thought for a moment of the end of summer practice of sorting through all our clothes and packing what could no longer fit us into boxes to take to the Salvation Army. The cans of uneaten tropical fruit salad that we donated were not a hit with our palates.
We gave these things away. I used a tense correct, conjugated form of the verb Give. Was it not giving???
I thought about the implication...
“Act justly, love tenderly, and walk humbly with your God.”
– Micah 6:8
“Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“If you give what you do not need, it isn’t giving.”
– Mother Teresa
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to...”
– Anne Frank
“The great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love...”
– C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity) (via autumnfringes) (via christ-follower)
“It’s like I hardly see the sky some days
It’s like you hardly said...”
– Portishead, Insensible
“And we shed what was left of our summer skin…
On the night you left I...”
– Deathcab for Cutie, Summer Skin
“Your warm whispers- Out of the dark they carry my heart
Your warm whispers-...”
– Missy Higgins, Warm Whispers