February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
2 posts
“Why do you say, O Jacob,
and complain, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the...”
– Isaiah 40:27-41
“Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. He alone is my rock...”
– Psalm 62:5-8
November 2011
3 posts
IF ONLY —
but the Lord tells me to be content
when compared with calvary, or just compared with the lives of most people in the world, i don’t have anything to complain about.
what in the world is God doing with my life?
in-between everything and feeling stuck.
i really, really wish i could stop working and go to school again
or do something less meaningless
or learn to be more long-suffering
…something.
October 2011
4 posts
something i miss:
staying up late with tea and reading Saki or Shirley Jackson. their words bite and made my throat tighten with surprise and the special recognition that is usually reserved for a sardonic joke between old friends.
now time is passing by so fast its all a blur.
temporarily working in SF for the next six months
i need some waterproof shoes.
4 tags
“Dealing with burning issues without being rooted in a deep personal relationship...”
– Henri J. M. Nouwen In The Name Of Jesus
via sds: thecommoncup
(via christianity)
“Who can discern his errors? Forgive my hidden faults. Keep your servant also...”
– Psalm 19:12-13
September 2011
1 post
GOD first, life second. =): The Master's Hand →
The Master’s Hand
‘Twas battered and scarred and the auctioneer
Thought it scarcely worth his while
To waste much time on the old violin,
But he held it up with a smile.
“What am I bid, good folk?” he cried.
“Who’ll start the bidding for me?
A dollar, a dollar … now two … only two …
Two dollars, and who’ll make it three?
“Three dollars once, three dollars twice,
Going...
July 2011
3 posts
sitting at a table with a missionary to my left and to my right. they probably wouldn’t call themselves missionaries, but since they are going to do cross-cultural gospel work for the next year, i guess that makes them missionaries. we happen to be the same age, and that means we are pretty young.
don’t have anything profound to say about it; i think truth is terribly ego bruising,...
“Transformation is not optional but mandatory for Christians. This was Lewis’s...”
– Alan Jacobs, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis (p 219)
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
2 posts
The catalyst to growth is need
Green Shades - Sam...
April 2011
3 posts
“The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I...”
– Tim Keller, The Reason for God
March 2011
9 posts
two things i want to get good at
saying i’m sorry
saying goodbye.
“If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want...”
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher (via christianity)
“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you. My power is made...”
– 2 cor 12:9
“The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so...”
– 1 Peter 4:7-8
“love is not easily provoked. (King James)
love does not insist on its own way...”
– God’s love is always a lot more longsuffering than anything I think reasonable. Good for me to receive from Him, but need grace and His strength to emulate
February 2011
8 posts
“Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that...”
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones
this paper is refusing to come out.
“No servant has ever existed alone. Whenever you find a servant, you will find a...”
– Living Your Christian Values by Ralph W. Neighbour Jr.
“People need to stop trying to bully me into buying salads. I’m a 20-year-old...”
– my friend doesn’t like salad. hear hear.
January 2011
12 posts
two questions
God asks us:
“Where are you?” Genesis 3:9
“Where is your brother?” Genesis 4:9
Two questions that are easily forgotten.
Most of the time is spent asking the wrong questions:
“What should I do?”
“Where am I going?”
We are focused inward, while God is always reaching out to connect with us, to connect us with each other. He asks...
“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in...”
– Isaiah 26:3-4
“The faith which collapses is the faith which has not thought things out and...”
– William Barclay, Barclay’s Daily Study Bible Series CD, The Bible Library v.3.2 [software], (Louisville, KY: Westminster Press, 1975) notes for verse
That moment when you're reading a book and you...
Lol
“7 The law of the LORD is perfect,
reviving the soul.
The statutes of the...”
– Psalm 19:7-14
