July 2011
6 posts
4 tags
He told me that I am his best friend.
I’m moving to Texas in less than a year.
To fall more and more in love with my best friend.
My heart has found the one it has longed for.
For once, I can look at all those silly wedding blogs and not feel crazy. Because guess what world? In less than a long while, I will be engaged, and then in not much longer, I will marry my best friend.
here i am, send me: would you consider helping a... →
isaiah6-8:
i will be headed down to mexico in the next few days. i am used to going a few times a year with teams of up to 180 people at a time. but this year we’ll have less than 30. this is in direct relation to the drug war being fought there. i can understand people wanting to be safe and for that reason…
“The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
(via changingmyperspective)
Good Seed, Bad Seed: "If" by Rudyard Kipling →
goodseedbadseed:
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or, being hated,…
June 2011
16 posts
when a song meets your heart's cry
Beyond the Blue Stand on the shores of a site unseen The substance of this dwells in me Cause my natural eyes only go skin deep But the eye’s of my heart anchor the sea Plumbing the depths to the place in between The tangible world and the land of a dreams Because everything ain’t quite it seems There’s more beneath the appearance of things A beggar could be king within the shadows, ...
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love enough to marry?
Joshua and I were talking last night. He’d just come from the wedding of one of his good friends. We’ve been to a lot of weddings together, which always makes for interesting conversations after. He said a few things that challenged me, that provoked me, and that make me appreciate him all the more.
He said, seeing Matt and Shannon commit the vows they had written to one another made...
God of life, God of death? What is blasphemy?
It is staggering to me, the amount of turmoil my heart is thrown into when speaking of sexuality. I sat in a coffee shop in a Southern town just now with my parents. As is custom, the talk of religion and politics swept through our conversation. My father can speak so frankly about such things. About things changing, about Christianity being more and more outcast, pushed out of government. We do...
Good Seed, Bad Seed: our sisterhood of secrets. →
goodseedbadseed:
we talked for a time of wishes and wandering all logic and reasoning just to kill it with compassion and hoping one breath or thought in exchange for the next like true sun-blistered sisters, it all came to lay bare. all thoughts undressed and left collecting at our feet, just before the water,…
Good Seed, Bad Seed: This is where thinking gets... →
goodseedbadseed:
I am convinced that the cynics and realists in this world are just hurt idealists.
“Don’t be naive” is the favorite line of many fearful girls transitioning to womanhood. They chant it in their heads, they sing it to the mirror as they crane their necks to the side and stare into their own…
“By this we k now that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before...
“The Christian life is not a means to heaven. War is not a means to peace,...”
– William Cavanaugh, Liturgy as Politics (via invisibleforeigner)
Hold us close and over fire.
I wrote the bit below this only days after we met. And here we are half a year later- and here I am loving this man, receiving his love. And God has been so good, has redeemed so much. When I pray with him, the intimacy is terrifying and our hearts have such passion together.
My God, my God, hold us close and over fire. Refining, refining, refining. To your glory, glory, glory.
We began with a...
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,...”
– Agatha Christie (via sinnernotasaint)
“While women weep, as they do now, I’ll fight; while children go hungry, as they...”
– William Booth (via azspot)
“We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or...”
– R. C. Sproul (via christianwords)
May 2011
12 posts
Written in a strange state of mind.
With sun on our cheeks
we peddled past subtle
indications that we were growing older.
And sunset upon moon rise we began
to notice a sense of fatality
some presence of our stories drawing nigh.
I wondered upon this, for while
we had lived a life full of wildly
innapropriate and fullfilling
acts, I also felt we had accomplished
all that should be desired in
an outright lived tale.
...
I Believe in Child Labour, Sweatshops and Torture →
changingmyperspective:
I am not trying to rid people of their beliefs at all; indeed this is not even possible. Without beliefs a person would not be able to get out of bed in the morning. Beliefs are operating all the time, enabling us to function on a day-to-day basis. I am rather interested in showing how what we really believe often has nothing whatsoever to do with what we say we believe...
A case where Christian civil disobedience may be... →
But, back to the theological judgment. Some people object most strenuously when I or anyone else declares a person or group non-Christian. Usually I find such objectors will gladly do the same with regard to people they deem heretics.
But why limit such judgments to matters of doctrine? Why, for example, judge Jehovah’s Witnesses non-Christians but say it is wrong to judge people who hate...
My love is near a thousand miles away. I wish his body lay next to mine.
“You cannot say you are a follower of the guy who said love your enemies and do...”
– Bill Maher (via soupsoup)
Yeshuas and Joshuas and tears and giggles.
Today was hard. Started it off with a double shift, 10am to 12am, will repeat tomorrow, and then regular 8 hour shifts straight til next Tuesday.
Worn out, but I need the money.
In weariness, however, I finally had to lose it a little. Car broken down and a lot of extra stress left me in tears for a while.
How quick I am to let circumstances dictate. Got to skype with the love of my life,...
“Cheerleaders, chants, and beach balls are barbaric responses to the announcement...”
– I cite (via azspot)
“As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of...”
– Ezekiel 33:11 (via fuckyeahchristianradicalism)
This is all I have to offer.
Turtles can tell more about the roads then hares.:... →
revolutiontheorist:
When the news came in that Osama Bin Laden died, I didn’t know what to feel. To be honest, my initial reaction exuded a sense of triumph, but that soon faded. Then, it came to me: “I don’t know if today is one worthy of joy or mourning?” Certainly Bin Laden created chaos in the world. He…
April 2011
9 posts
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alxandria:
I just finished reading the words of a woman I know.. and they were exquisite. They brought tears to my eyes as they told me of a lady unique and inwardly beautiful. Then I pondered… were tears with me from the wonder of her words? or was it simply because I feel…
so average.
You are anything but average. An exquisite woman. Passionate and fierce in her love and creativity.
“Here at the cross is the man who loves his enemies, the man whose righteousness...”
– John Howard Yoder (The Politics of Jesus)
I want to see the rest!!
revolutiontheorist:
With a swift kick - the silver lining becomes a thick wire. What was clear before is like a forgotten bible verse your mom use to quote. The memories don’t quite fade with time - and the songs you sing only set you a note back - Freedom is where you left it - hanging from a tire swing in your back yard.
The sheets on your bed are plaid and...
“There is no huge class of uncommitted independents waiting to be persuaded....”
– Policy in an age of post-truth politics (via azspot)
And, after thinking about that statement.
I know that I did not run this time, because I have begun to hold still when the Father claims his love for me. I have never done that before. I read his word, it aches in stories that claim his love for me- and I have always run. But he has captivated me. His love has healed wounds which should have crippled me and his love and loosed chains that should...
A man has told me he loves me.
I have not run.
March 2011
47 posts
“If you hang out much with thinking people, conversation eventually turns to the...”
– Joe Bageant (via azspot)
“We call a nonviolent man “Lord” and in his name rekindle the arms race. We call...”
– John Howard Yoder, The Priestly Kingdom (via invisibleforeigner)
Will be flying out to NYC early in the morning for some dear friends’ wedding. I can’t wait.
The city perhaps has grown strange to me, but I know I will walk in it, and feel its ways again.
When a "Christian America" Meant Something Else →
If the United States was a Christian nation, then it was up to evangelicals, for the sake of “posterity,” to make sure it remained that way. Attendees spent days listening to talks on topics related to social and moral reform. For example, today’s evangelicals might be surprised to learn that their 19th-century spiritual ancestors were concerned about the plight of workers in the ever-burgeoning...
