July 2012
June 2012
“It is easy to see that you and I have been created to worship. We’re flat-out desperate for it. From sports fanaticism to celebrity tabloids to all the other strange sorts of voyeurisms now normative in our culture, we evidence that we were created to look at something beyond ourselves and marvel at it, desire it, like it with zeal, and love it with affection. Our thoughts, our desires, and our behaviors are always oriented around something, which means we are always worshiping — ascribing worth to — something. If it’s not God, we are engaging in idolatry. But either way, there is no way to turn the worship switch in our hearts off.”
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Matt Chandler
Today, I am choosing to worship God, and nothing else.
(via lebellecoeur)
“One day, a long time from now you’ll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That’s when you’ll finally produce the work you’re capable of.”
—J.D. Salinger (via rebeccasusanne)
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. but it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of every kind. it needs people who live well in their places. it needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture has defined it.”
—David Orr (via lebellecoeur, free-wilderness)
Dancing in the Dark
Mat Kearney
First Dance Song:
Dancing in the Dark - Mat Kearney
"Our God is jealous for His own, none could comprehend His love and mercy."
to say the least, it’s been a blessing to love on these children all week. God worked in my heart and in the groups heart to have mercy, understanding, grace, and love to work in Philadelphia. and to know God watches over them is a sigh of relief, my hope is that one day they will all know who He is.
what an experience.
“Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. For those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. You can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. Summer just opens the door and lets you out.”
—Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart (via midwest-belle)
Good grief! Your tatto ideas are so similar to mine - especially #7. I don't think I've seen that one anywhere . . . ever.
no way!?
i’ve always liked the word grace — such a simple word, but it carries so much meaning and weight to it.
i hope you’ve have a lovely week! -meg
and we're back!
thankful to be home, but will miss the daily interactions with the kids in inner-city Philadelphia.
more to come later!
sorry i've been MIA on missions trip & will answer all questions on saturday night! God is at work in these kids lives!
shoot, i forgot to add that one! thanks for the reminder! :)
tattoo ideas.
- Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. {psalm 119:105}
- strength & dignity
- beloved
- zephaniah 3:17
- anchored in You.
- an anchor (i’d make my sister get one & we would both have it. double meaning: anchored in Christ & a reminder of the strength, support my sister gives me)
- grace (in hebrew)
- “come as you are.”
