February 2011
72 posts
1 tag
sigh.
“You can tell you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God...”
– Anne Lamott
January 2011
53 posts
my God, I am not. but You are.
I like it when I’m feeling sad because I don’t think I’ll get to go to church in the morning, and then not even 10 minutes later my suitemate comes in, asks me where I’m going to church, and says to let me know where I want to go in the morning.
yeah, I like that a lot.
“I’m not too concerned with what I’m going to do. I’m more...”
– Shane Claiborne
The Quiet World - Jeffrey McDaniel
In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodle soup. I am adjusting well to the new way. Late at night, I call my long distance lover, ...
drinking hot chocolate out of my rainbow mug, crocheting, and watching eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.
I love today.
I don’t understand how some people can make friends so easily. how being social can come so naturally. actually, I understand it, it’s just that I’m not like that. and it is probably the greatest source of my unhappiness at the moment.
I don’t know if I give off a vibe of not wanting people to talk to me, but they don’t. and if they do, then I mess it up by not being...
selected thoughts from a Bible class
ah, people and clothes and knitting and spelling my name with elements and sharpie pens and no coat weather.
I get so distracted by people and what they are wearing.
my Bible teacher exclusively uses comic sans #fontsnob #I’vestartedthinkinginhashtags
I love feeling like I’m dressed like a librarian or a teacher.
how are we made in the image of God? obviously not physically. God...
lately I’ve been reminded so much of how you can love God for the wrong reasons.
I don’t want to love God because I don’t want to go to hell. I don’t want to love God because I want to go to Heaven. I don’t want to love God because He blesses me. I don’t want to love God because that’s what I’m supposed to do.
I want to love God.
Wedding Dress - Derek Webb
a few people I follow have been posting their life plans, and it got me thinking about mine.
at the moment, I’m in school majoring in Dietetics. I guess I plan to be a dietitian. I may specialize in diabetes, and possibly become a certified diabetes educator. but really, I could do a lot of things with dietetics. I might like to do something in the food service realm. school lunches these...
I think I legitimately lack social skills. I know what you’re “supposed” to do, but I don’t do it.
and I think posting about it on tumblr just qualified that statement.
“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and...”
– Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya, from Looking for Alaska
Who told you that you were naked?
(from Stuff Christians Like)
I don’t want to brag, but I’m pretty awesome at applying band-aids. And make no mistake, there is an art. Because if you go too quickly and unpeel them the wrong way, they stick to themselves and you end up with a wadded up useless mess instead of the Little Mermaid festooned bandage your daughter so desperately wants to apply to a boo boo that may in fact be 100%...
“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people...”
– Camille Pissarro
“Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a...”
– John Keats (via littlehappythings) (via quote-book)
for some reason I’m really homesick right now. more than I have been in the past 6 months. more than the first time I was away from home for an extended period of time, more than my first semester of college. I’m just sad right now, for the life I’m leaving behind. even though I wasn’t entirely happy.
on top of that, I have a bump pretty much in my eyebrow and under my...
“This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust...”
– Brian Andreas
I watched you sleeping quietly in my bed. you don’t know this now, but there’s some things that need to be said. it’s all that I can hear, it’s more than I can bear. what if I fall and hurt myself, would you know how to fix me? what if I went and lost myself, would you know where to find me? if I forgot who I am, would you please remind me? oh, ‘cause without you...
nothing’s quite the same now I just say your name now but it’s not so bad you’re only the best I ever had
I want to live life in the moment. I want to be happy being in love with God. I’m not dissatisfied with my life, or myself, but I feel like I want two different things at the same time.
I feel a little detached from my life.
themidnighttsociety asked: hi! i just wanted to say i love your blog!
“Don’t you dare tell me nothing matters. Everything matters. Every fucking...”
– I Wrote This For You
as much as I hate school, I’ve been wanting to go back lately because I’m kind of ready to study again. doing nothing is nice for awhile, but I’m ready to do something worthwhile.
also, I really want to go Barnes and Noble with a boy and read children’s books. my youth minister and his wife do that for a free date, and even though they don’t have kids, they have a...
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“What is it you want to change? your hair, your face, your body? WHY? For God is...”
– St. Catherine of Siena (via gloria-in-excelsis)
