a life incredible, vivid, excellent.
“the greatest thing you can ever accomplish in your life is to know God.” — brent knox oh man. true, and so encouraging. i could’ve shot to the moon right when i heard that. “how precious to me are Your thoughts, o God! how vast is the sum of them! if i would count them,…
Read Morethe sky is darkened confined, time-bound by a veil of cloud only a single star can pierce through. so sometimes i feel constricted, limited by the selective world of my own mind and long for something someone to shatter my smoke-glass ceiling so i can see the stars. i am very small, 100 trillion cells…
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a wind sprang high in the west like a wave of unreasonable happiness and tore eastward across england, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea. in a million holes and corners it refreshed a man like a flagon, and astonished him like a blow. in the inmost…
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“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way …” — psalm 46:1-2a — — — — — one year ago, someone got to see what the inside of my brain looked like. 365 days. five hundred, twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes,…
Read Morei love buying old musty first editions at half price books or other serendipitous booksellers and finding notes scribbled in the margins. do you write in your books? i don’t. it seems almost like a desecration to do so. the only book i write in is my Bible. (if you want to chuckle at that odd…
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today has been a beautiful, exciting, peaceful, relaxing day (for me, at least). it has rained a great deal of the day. i got to putter around a craft store with my mum. i got to sing songs to a beautiful Person with three amazingly talented people in rehearsal for the worship through music time…
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i have a friend who has a lot of mind and a lot of heart. once upon a time this friend said something about hearing God’s voice that … well, made my heart hurt a little bit. i’m reading notes from the tilt-a-whirl by n.d. wilson right now, and the following passage from the chapter…
Read Morelisten to these (with your eyes closed): alligator sky galaxies then remember that He placed each of the stars precisely in the sky and knows where every individual one is. He knows where the black holes are, the red dwarfs, the brown dwarfs, the nebulas, the galaxies — any little particle of anything that ever…
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… a life incredible, vivid, excellent. and someday, there’s even more.
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In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. — Christopher Morley What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! — Logan Pearsall Smith 1 Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD…
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