"In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth-only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair. Most of us have got over the pre-war wishful ( Read more... )

for those of you who dont know, i love superheros, specifically spiderman and superman. something about them just gets me all riled up inside and wanting to go save people ( Read more... )

my gerbils are having another litter.

2 new babies so far...

life is happening ( Read more... )

"...we urge you not to recieve God's grace in vain."

[IIcorinthianssix:one]

ouch.

"but the harder i try
the more clearly can i
feel the depth of our fall
and the weight of it all

and so this might could be
the most impossible thing:
your grandness in me
making me clean

so here i am, all of me.
finally everything.
i am wholly wholly wholly Yours"

something happened to david crowder between those second and third ( Read more... )

i am sure you've been awaiting these forever...
at last, pictures of my beautiful children.


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listen: my gerbils finally had babies.

heck yes.

The original call of Jesus was so simple, so clean, so clear: 'Follow Me.'  He wants us to surrender our lives to Him and follow Him into the unknown.  And if it means a life of suffering, hardship, and disappointment, it will be worth it because following ( Read more... )

"come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!...

why spend your money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?

listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of fare."

isaiah 55