"the child cant wait to be a teenager; the teenager cant wait to have a driver's license.  when youre in high school, you cant wait until youre in college.  so many of our developmental years are spent longing for the years to come.  we see in them a freedom that is being withheld from us at the present.  then, even though we are absolutely free to ( Read more... )

"This is my life, Dad, this is it. I spent 26 years waiting for something else to start, so, no, I don't think it's too much to take on, because it's everything there is. I see now it's all of it."

///Garden State

"Life is happening, and it means everything..."

///David Crowder

"You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O'Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth ( Read more... )

relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done

[cslewis]

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"Ruined"

In the book Dangerous Wonder Mike Yacconelli writes, “I’m ready for a Christianity that ruins my life, that captures my heart and makes me uncomfortable.” At times, we all need to be ruined; we need to let God disrupt our lives-taking us to a place of absolute need. Following Jesus was never meant to be the safe alternative to an ( Read more... )

"My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and the knowledge of God..."

Proverbs 2:1-5

"Look at the nations and watch-
      and be utterly amazed.
For I am going to do something in your days
      that you would not believe,
      even if you were told..."

"...the revelation awaits an appointed time;
      it speaks of the end
      and it will not prove false.
Though it linger, wait for it;
      it will certainly come and will not delay ( Read more... )

“We look for visions from heaven and for earth-shaking events to see God’s power. Even the fact that we are dejected is proof that we do this. Yet we never realize that all the time God is at work in our everyday events and in the people around us. If we will only obey, and do the task that He has placed closest to us, we will see Him. One of the ( Read more... )

Christ says 'Give me All.  I don't want so much of your time and so much of your work: I want YouI have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it.  No ( Read more... )

basic geometry: start with a triangle and add a side and you will get a square. add another side and youll have a pentagon. keep adding sides and you will find yourself with octagons and decagons, and eventually you will have a shape that looks like a circle. theoretically, if you added sides forever, at the end of "forever" you would in fact ( Read more... )