May 2012
14 posts
“Come boldly, O believer, for despite the whisperings of satan and the doubtings...”
– Charles Spurgeon (via guidemeinyourtruth)
“Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does...”
– Elisabeth Elliot (via chaispice)
“the most beautiful souls are the souls that smile regardless of their struggle.”
– (via suzyhumanity)
April 2012
23 posts
wanderlusts:
Wagon Wheel -Mumford & Sons...
I used to try to give hurting friends the answers. Now all I’ve got is - I’ll walk with you through this. Presence trumps advice.
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via thehipsterkids)
thereisabetterway:
What a fellowship, what a joy divine, leaning on the Everlasting Arms.
What a blessedness, what a peace is mine, leaning on the Everlasting Arms.
Leaning on Jesus Christ, my Savior. Safe and secure from all alarms. Leaning on Jesus Christ, my Savior. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.
Oh, how sweet to walk In this pilgrim way. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.
Oh, how...
suzyhumanity:
“take this rule: whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of the flesh over the spirit, that thing is sin to you, however good it is in itself.”
We, The Foxes.: Is That Your Final Answer? →
wethefoxes:
Life is limited. Happiness comes and goes, and it seems the only thing permanent is change. It is true that the world around us is a mixing pot for beauty and ugliness. And so with these things we see that not much is dependable, and we can’t rely on much. However, we realize that those limited…
March 2012
19 posts
“pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of the children, who faint from hunger at the head of every street.” lamentations 2:19
I exist today, the way I am, because there are still those who have not heard the gospel of Christ. Its the part where our artistic, adventurous and poetic Creator displays His creativity. Don’t downplay it. Don’t belittle it. Don’t starve it. Don’t cling to it. Don’t control it. Don’t idolize it. Foster it, be a steward of it… within the framework of that “because”. If you know your...
Step back.
wethefoxes:
kelayne:
Step back, All you see now are the smudges, smears and misplaced lines- Turn your eyes to a wider frame of view. Step back farther, All those faults you perceive are brushstrokes arranged into the likeness of a beautiful life, a beautiful world, a beautiful soul. Step back, this is the way I see you.
I love this. Thank you for posting this.
the seasons change
while they change - they’re changin’ me
“There hasn’t been fighting in Uganda the last 6 years when that war ended!...”
– My friend and Ugandan pastor - who, at 18, became the overseer of over 200 Ugandan orphans. After I asked him about his take on this whole “Make Kony Famous” thing.
“Six months later after the initial attack near our compound, the LRA again...”
– http://fromtheunpavedroad.com/
“You cannot heal a land filled with violence with more violence. That may seem...”
– Father Martin from Northern Uganda
“Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than...”
– Arabic Proverb (via elige)
