October 2010
4 posts
I need this.
I haven’t blogged since the summer, and my excuses have been varied. For the most part, I feel as though I’m too occupied with other—often school, service or socially-related—things to really reflect and give myself time to think, just me. My mind is so flooded right now, I’m so concerned with other supposed obligations. I let the responsibility I feel I owe to others take...
“God is always true to His promise that whatever He started in you, He will take...”
– (via iamlovedbytheking)
September 2010
6 posts
“If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it:
the sound of what...”
– Brian Andreas (via quote-book)
“Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs.”
– Jonah 2:8 (NIV)
New mercy's in the morning.
“It feels like someone kicked you in the stomach, feels like your heart stopped...”
– The Women (via quote-book)
i'm not like this.
i hate that i can’t focus on the good right now. i hate that my happiness is at the liberty of other people. i hate that i can not be content with everything i have, and instead focus on what is lacking in my life. i pray for peace. i pray that i acknowledge all the love that is surrounding me and that i can delight in this and this alone. i want to find my God again. i want to be...
August 2010
38 posts
“Trust in the LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART; do not depend on your own understanding....”
– Proverbs 3:5-6 (via taylorcthomas)
“You don’t see the face of God because you can’t peel yourself away from Facebook...”
– tonyseigh (via flowersfordelilah) (via life-walk)
i really need to put this into practice. i must stop seeking comfort and gratification in the trivial things and delight in His love alone.
heisjealousforme:
genevieveolivia:
tonyseigh:
There is this romantic idea in our minds of going out to the wilderness to find peace. As though all of our problems were society, technology, politics, or as Sartre put it “hell is other people”. We’ve come up with this Western romanticism that says if we can just flee, hit the open road, go into the woods, or into the cabin, like a hipster...
“Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.”
– Paul Claudel (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
so tiredd!
but i couldn’t be more satisfied with the training program i am participating in this weekend. so far i have met some amazing and kindhearted people and i love hearing of their experiences with service. i am so moved to implement many improvements this year with lauren as my co-coordinator and make the site even more efficient. but God knows, i need to take a trip to the shelter soon,...
“You have to pay attention, take the world in before you can accurately let it...”
– As Simple As Snow by Gregory Galloway (via quote-book)
“God has given gifts to each of you … Manage them well … then God will be given...”
– 1 Pet. 4:10 (via biggblog)
tomorrow!
i can’t believe i move back to school in just a matter of hours now. by around 9 am i will begin situating myself in my home away from home, and i couldn’t be more excited. i am so eager to discover more of myself and continue to grow and encounter new and exciting experiences and people at school! that being said, this transition, though familiar, carries with it some anxiety. i fear...
i've learned
to never be shameful about the way that i feel. i have always been honest. i do not have a problem admitting to myself or other people my history, my experiences, and the emotions and sentiments that have resulted. i am the person that i am, and i have been shaped by this world in accordance with God’s will and there is no sense in obscuring any of this.
i do not live to please other people who...
“For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical...”
– Marc Barasch (via justbesplendid)
i am so very blessed.
with genuine friendships, a mother who i am lucky enough to call my best friend, an affinity for animals, and the opportunity to go to an amazing school where i continue to grow and discover myself.
i wish to never forget this.
our time is limited.
so i’m spending my second consecuative day just with my mom. maybe some quick shopping again followed by tie dying a couple sheets for my dorm room and then a movie later on. i wouldn’t have it any other way :)
the beginning of the end.
today was my last day, aside from vacations, at the shelter until next summer. i anticipated that i would be a little sad, and i was right. upon getting there, the other volunteers were instantly in need of assistance with walking our 15 or so dogs in the kennel. i’ve never seen a selection of such beautiful dogs at the shelter before. and i’m still amazed at the way each and every one...
:)
reading, bed, church in the AM, ali’s house, Eat Pray Love, ali’s nonno and nonni’s for an italian feast!
so much to smile about! that is, before tuesday rolls around and it’s my last day at the shelter in lowell. i’m coming to find endings are so bittersweet.
shelter today!
how i’ve missed it!
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who...
(via nonelikejesus)
a longtime "friend"
is visiting tomorrow. this is another one of her persistent attempts at reaching out to me these past couple weeks. i wonder if it will be again followed by a “wrench in the plan”. this is what i’ve come to expect of her, seeing as she has cancelled on me more times than i can count. i literally have seen more of my friends that live in different areas of the state-or different...
“Those who God uses the most often experience the most trials.”
– Pastor Jerry Standridge (via darnell)
“I think that one of the biggest threats facing young, God-fearing women is...”
– Candice Montgomery (She said this in an interview with Hopecore Magazine. She’s the wife of Mattie Montgomery - lead singer of For Today) (via lovefoundaway) (via heisjealousforme)
“I asked for strength..and God gave me difficulties to make me stronger. I asked...”
– (via loveisyour-colour)
i love everything i have.
and isn’t that what people are continually trying to instill in us? that the key to happiness isn’t longing for something else but coming to appreciate all that you already have- counting your blessings at any given opportunity? it’s such an odd concept. that having gratitude and being grateful and often times returning the favor to those who have served you well can grant you...
Raise me up to live again
Like You did, like You did.
today..
helping mom with the pool and then getting ready to go to the verizon store. purchasing new phones and then possibly coming back here-i’d really love to walk my pups on this beautiful day!-or checking out national carpet before leaving for boston around 4. there we will meet my sister to drop off her phone and eat at the prudential center. i love my sister, as much trouble as she can be...
July 2010
32 posts
This is so hard.
God must be testing me.
i have an angel for a mother.
peter drank last night, because mom and I are away on vacation. he arranged for a taxi to pick him up, probably moments after he got home form work, drove to the track, drank, and got driven home. peter, my virtual stepfather and “reformed” alcoholic as i previously termed him, does not drink anymore, and i used to pride myself on that seeing as i cannot say the same for my...