August 2011
3 posts
You guys. My roommate is hilarious.
“Literally nothing weirds me out. Like you could tell me that you were having sex with a giraffe in your garage and I would be like, ‘I’m really glad you told me.’”
- my roomie Stacey
This is the most frightening article I have ever... →
“I couldn’t have imagined reducing twins for nonmedical reasons,” she said, “but I had an amnio and would have had an abortion if I found out that one of the babies had an anomaly, even if it wasn’t life-threatening. I didn’t want to raise a handicapped child. Some people would call that selfish, but I wouldn’t. Parents who abort for an anomaly just don’t want that life for themselves, and it’s...
Getting the feeling that maybe no one really wants me around today.
I kind of wish I hadn’t noticed.
July 2011
14 posts
The way that God answers prayers is like nothing I’ve ever seen.
Risk the ocean.
http://www.themotherhuddle.com/tutorial-fat-quarter... →
I really want to get a group of girls together and make these for little girls overseas! So precious!
What is it about people’s approval that is so tempting, something that becomes our goal and occasionally our definition of ourselves?
Thought from tonight.
1. I saw the Notebook for the first time tonight, and I cried.
2. Also, I kept imagining Allie as Regina George. The whole time.
3. I am incredibly blessed to be surrounded by a group of amazing Christian girls!! Seriously, like 20 of them. All amazing.
4. Mark Driscoll is growing on me.
5. The wine I had tonight was really good.
“Loving the world is the same as hating God.” - Adam Young
“Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.” - Psalm 143:8
“Never once did we ever walk alone. Never once did You leave us on our own. You are faithful, God, You are faithful.” - ‘Never Once’, Matt Redman
I feel like I am enslaved by sin; forced to react and act in ways I hate. I know that Christ died to free me from the grip of sin, so why do I still feel so bound by it?
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“In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to Him as an instrument of...
Some older ladies at work are talking about being married, but being tempted by ‘all those cute guys in Walmart’.
Um…
My friends (and phone convos) are pretty bomb.
Especially the beautiful and amazing Kalen Gary and Lindsey Lynn!
“Abraham never wavered in believing God’s promise. In fact, his faith grew stronger, and in this he brought glory to God. He was fully convinced that God is able to do whatever He promises.”
- Romans 4:20-21
“And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, He will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith?”
- Matthew 6:30
Why is it so hard to trust that God will provide?
June 2011
11 posts
“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His...
Really crappy day. Wow. I feel so overwhelmed right now, and not in a good way.
“We have also developed ways of trying to get something of the love our hearts cried out for. The ache is there. Our desperate need for love and affirmation, our thirst for some taste of romance and adventure and beauty is there. So we turned to boys or food or to romance novels; we lost ourselves in our work or at church or in some sort of service. All this adds up to the women we are...
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“What if God in all His might is simply waiting to show His power in a people who turn their backs on a philosophy of life that exalts their supposed ability to do anything they want and who instead confess their desperate need for Him? What if God in all His grace is radically committed to showing himself strong on behalf of a people who express their need for Him so that their lives might...
Talking to someone on the phone when you know they only called out of obligation and don’t want to talk to you really sucks. Even more so when it’s someone you’re really good friends with :(
Praise God for putting me in situations where I can’t but He can. Talking to my parents about God, leading my own Sunday school class and succeeding in a job where people expect great things of me. His power is made perfect in my weakness. I truly rejoice in the fact that I alone can do none of these things!
I still have no internet haha but thanks to a handy dandy smartphone I am able to post anyways! Only One thought for today: God is good and He is so faithful!
“Can’t stop, red light, yellow caution, it’s a green light: GO.” - Gorilla Zoe
[stuck in my head]
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‘Killing Me’ - Lloyd
Discovered this...
Blessed.
I was nervous about my move to Jacksonville yesterday; about leaving Atlanta and a community; being nervous that I wouldn’t be a very good long-distance friend and would unintentionally lose friendships; that it would be hard to make friends there, etc. I had been kind of dreading yesterday.
However, it turned into one of the best days I’ve had in a while :)
Encouraging tumblr post...
May 2011
23 posts
“Nothing compares to Your embrace. Light of the world, forever reign.”
I’m feeling really weird. Lots of things going on right now. Lots of feelings I’ve been ignoring and am facing now and it’s really overwhelming.
Im kind of scared.
Trying to rejoice in my failures because I know that God is enough AND He is glorified in my weakness.
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are Mine.”
- Isaiah 43:1
“So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them. Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the...
Watch#2: Video clip of Brandon and my Mr. GT 2007 video.
The Cleaning/Packing Chronicles
I’m bound to find random and interesting things as I’m going through my room, and I thought I’d share them as I find them.
#1: Piece of paper circa sixth grade - “If I was an animal, I would be a puppy. Puppies are very soft and sweet on the outside but they are always ready to attack when someone is mean”.
hahahah sixth grade girls anyone?
Fighting with 2 sets of memories.
Memory Set #1: Wonderful times with friends, times I felt like I was a part of a community, random car trips, being able to set up events and get people to have fun and hang out.
Memory Set #2: Trying to break into a community, and giving up. Sitting alone in my room… again. Seeing people maintain stronger friendships than I’d ever had, but wish I...
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