February 2012
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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?
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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.
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!
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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)
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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)
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“Pema Chödrön, an ordained Buddhist nun, writes of compassion and suggests that...”
– p. 71, Tattoos on the Heart
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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)
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“When You fill my heart, my eyes overflow.”
– An Algerian Trappist, before his martyrdom (p. 22, Tattoos on the Heart)
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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...
