February 2012
24 posts
Feb 26th
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Feb 26th
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guidemeinyourtruth: Why Practicing Lent IS Crazy Sacrifice is hitting a point where you see your own limits, and give beyond that. It’s saying to God, “Fine, let my life make no sense at all, let it be a failure, let it be wasted, but above all, let it be yours.” It’s throwing yourself out across a canyon you could never leap across, trusting somehow there will be a parachute, or a net, or a...
Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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Keeping up with life is exhausting. My mind is overflowing with unorganized lists of every email I need to send and every phone call I need to make and the people I need to see and the errands I need to run. I desperately need some margin in my life.
Feb 24th
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Feb 24th
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I’m still working on setting goals for this year. One category of my life that I’m trying to work on is my community involvement. The reason I moved here was to become a part of the community that I was serving. Kinship, as Gregory Boyle would put it. Now, I do work and go to church in my neighborhood, as well as mentor several area teen girls, but I want to expand my network and...
Feb 23rd
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Feb 22nd
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One of my goals this year is to read more books (maybe 1-2 books/month). My friends are going to email me their suggestions, but I thought I could ask here as well. What is a book you’ve recently enjoyed reading and why?
Feb 21st
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Trying to stay awake on the plane
I just had a wonderful weekend away in the city that used to be mine with the friends who got me through college. It was so refreshing to leave the stress of a new job and to talk about our goals for the coming months and years. I am exhausted. But I am also very inspired and grateful.
Feb 21st
Feb 14th
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Sorry for all the quote spam from the book I’m reading. But one of the main reasons I started a Tumblr was to keep track of quotes/verses I love. And this book is so good!
Feb 10th
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“The strategy of Jesus is not centered in taking the right stand on issues, but...”
– Gregory Boyle (p.72, Tattoos on the Heart)
Feb 10th
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“Jesus was not a man for others. He was one with others. There is a world of...”
– Gregory Boyle (p. 72, Tattoos on the Heart)
Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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“Pema Chödrön, an ordained Buddhist nun, writes of compassion and suggests that...”
– p. 71, Tattoos on the Heart
Feb 9th
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“Here is what we seek: a compassion that can stand in awe at what the poor have...”
– Gregory Boyle (p. 67, Tattoos on the Heart)
Feb 9th
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“When You fill my heart, my eyes overflow.”
– An Algerian Trappist, before his martyrdom (p. 22, Tattoos on the Heart)
Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Psalm 90: reflections on time, worth, & favor
 1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place    throughout all generations. 2 Before the mountains were born    or you brought forth the earth and the world,    from everlasting to everlasting you are God.  3 You turn men back to dust,    saying, “Return to dust, O sons of men.” 4 For a thousand years in your sight    are like a day that has just gone by,    or like a watch in the night. 5 You sweep...
Feb 3rd
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
23 posts
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ListenSomebody from Somewhere - Ella Fitzgerald
Jan 31st
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“If it’s not acceptable in heaven, it’s not acceptable here.”
– Delirious? (Isaiah 61)
Jan 28th
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WatchWatch
comingfromthewoods: William Fitzsimmons Finding Home (Tour Version)
Jan 28th
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hopeful
I greeted 2011 with exhaustion and frustration.  I did my best to make it through each day.  But 2012 is a new year in so many ways.  I have a new job.  I’m starting to dream again—dreams for my life and dreams for my community. I don’t really make resolutions, but I’m working on putting together a list of goals for this year…
Jan 25th
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 16th
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awareness isn't enough
I believe that if ignorance is bliss then awareness is binding. Ignorance generates a good amount of attention while awareness for some reason generates little action. Enveloped by information, there is very little that happens in the world that we do not have the ability to learn about. Thus, many of us are quite informed of the nefarious actions and conditions of humanity. An American...
Jan 15th
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the bilingual advantage →
someday I’ll have bilingual children…
Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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“I’m believing, trusting in creative hands…”
Jan 11th
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prayer request
So I almost never ask for prayer on here, but I’m pretty desperate.  I’ve had a terrible, persistent, ear-shattering cough for over two weeks.  I’m on lots of meds but I can’t make it through a single sentence without coughing.  I’m supposed to start my new job tomorrow, so I’m praying that I will be able to make it through the rest of the week without leaving a...
Jan 11th
Jan 8th
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Jan 6th
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ListenGarden - Needtobreathe Father, let my heart be...
Jan 4th
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justice, mercy, humility
He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 (verse of the day)
Jan 4th
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Jan 3rd
verse of the day
“Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” -Psalm 90:12 (NIV)
Jan 2nd
Verse of the day: 01.01.2012
“This is what the LORD says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” -Isaiah 43:16, 18-19 (NIV)
Jan 1st
December 2011
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Someday I may learn how to pack and sleep in the same evening.
Dec 29th
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Dec 24th
ayúdame a soñar otra vez
Dec 22nd