November 2010
90 posts
Words to an artist...
Be bold. Do not cease from exploration. Be a legend. Exhaust yourself in living. Exercise your senses. Be patient. Step out onto the stage. Be fearless. Discover your hidden aspirations. Journal those desires. Network. Be a lover of truth. Fuse your passions with your future. Walk in His love. Find joy in His embrace. Cultivate your craft. Welcome His promise of a future. Capture the sights and...
“Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is...”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“To project one’s soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a...”
– Oscar Wilde
“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the...”
– “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho
Here in my weakness...
…You find me falling before Your throne.
Oh, I’m falling before Your throne, Jesus.
Captain, O Captain...
As I stand there waiting atop the old abandoned lighthouse, gusts of wind catching my curls and tossing them around, I see a faint glimmer in the distance. As the figure moves closer I gain an image of what appears to be a ship trudging onto shore. I hastily run to the bottom the the lighthouse, I stand along the disheveled sand where the ship had made anchor. I tip toe around to a tiny broken...
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tunes...”
– Emily Dickinson (via loveadinfinitum)
The One And Only...
It is when virtually every one last thing is taken from your grasp that you see there to be none but God and you. He will not relent until all of me is all of His as He is mine and I am His. Relationships, words, and emotions will fade but He will not because love is eternal and uncreated. His love is the end to which wickedness ceases to be and the end of all of our thoughts and desires the...
“Step outside your front door and look at today’s stage. Speak. God will reply....”
– Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl by N.D. Wilson
“We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing…
But as we grow...”
– Oswald Chambers
“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via loveadinfinitum, joyeuse)
Can the One who formed the ear not hear? Can the One who created the eye not see? When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, oh Lord, held me up. When the cares of my heart are many, Your consolations cheer my soul.
“God, I pray thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee....”
– Jim Elliot
He will always be my favorite Gerard.
Thee, God, I come from, to thee go, All day long I like fountain flow From thy hand out, swayed about Motelike in thy mighty glow. What I know of thee I bless, As acknowledging thy stress On my being and as seeing Something of thy holiness. Once I turned from thee and hid, Bound on what thou hadst forbid; Sow the wind I would; I sinned; I repent of what I did. Bad I am, but yet thy child. Father,...
We don’t bleed when we don’t fight. Go...
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C. S. Lewis
“There is only one Being who can completely satisfy to the absolute depth of the...”
– Oswald Chambers
“..Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the...”
– Sonnet 116 // William Shakespeare
“I didn’t call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald // The Great Gatsby
