February 2012
3 posts
soapbox: learning →
kelseyalinacoon:
prior to today, I had not heard a definition of forgiveness that I thought suitable. All definitions required me to explicitly or implicitly say that the things people had done to hurt me were ok. I was led to believe that I needed to let them know that it was ok to hurt me, when it wasn’t. Or, I…
January 2012
3 posts
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
6 posts
Prayer for a Marriage
When we are old one night and the moon arcs over the house like an antique China saucer and the teacup sun
follows somewhere far behind I hope the stars deepen to a shine so bright you could read by it
if you liked and the sadness we will have known go away for awhile – in this hour or two
before sleep – and that we kiss standing in the kitchen not fighting gravity so much as embodying
its...
“So when you run make sure to run
to something and not away from”
– The Avett Brothers (via christao)
October 2011
2 posts
life is pretty damn beautiful.
happiness
There’s just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away. And how can you not forgive? You make a feast in honor of what was lost, and take from its place the finest garment, which you saved for an occasion you could not imagine, and you weep night and day to know that you were not...
September 2011
13 posts
sometimes love has to drive a nail into its own hand.
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GOT ARIZONA RESIDENCY. nbd. Thank you, Jesus, for taking care of things far better than I ever could.
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“Here’s the thing about being a girlie girl. I think there was a generation...”
– Zooey Deschanel via NEW YORK MAGAZINE
(via shopmyrtle)
Thought-Provoking. →
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Oh Roseanne, I knew I loved you. →
August 2011
10 posts
For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted someone to write songs about me. To be someone’s muse, their inspiration. Unfortunately, this has never happened. (To my knowledge…if there are any creepy stalkers out there writing songs about me, it is unbeknownst to me). So, the next best thing is to pretend that the songs I love were really written about me. And here, is the...
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“Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As...”
– Cornelia Funke (via aeterne)
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No.
The last prayer had been said, and it was time to turn away from the casket, poised on its silver scaffolding over the open hole that smelled like a harrowed field. And then I heard a noise that seemed not to be human. It was more like the wind among leafless trees, or cattle lowing in a distant barn. I paused with one hand on the roof of the car, while the sound rose in pitch, then cohered...
July 2011
15 posts
“I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love...”
– J.K. Rowling (via hold-a-wolfs-ears)
On Counting What is Precious
In famine, the number of dried beans in the cupboard; in abundance, piles of chicken bones and empty wine bottles. In sorrow, so many tears that they over-salt the soup; in happiness, the number of place settings at a wedding feast. In middle age, candles on the cake; in youth, the frosting roses. In celebration, bubbles in a champagne glass; in mourning, the number of bites taken from a sandwich,...
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“I grew up in a house about a hundred feet from a cornfield, and every evening...”
– Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion
I HATE WORDS WITH FRIENDS. It’s so stupid because people take like 3 hours to take their turn, and you know it’s because they’re trying every stupid combination of words that could ever be, or they have some other app that tells them what to play [i.e. cheating]. If you are playing words that you would never use in conversation, you are not being a fun player. I have a very...
“Any truly Godly spiritual discipline is an activity of holy thought, consciously...”
– J. I. Packer
