February 2012
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“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness
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The Determination to Serve
“The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister.” Matt. 20:28
Paul’s idea of service is the same as Our Lord’s: “I am among you as He that serveth;” “ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.” We have the idea that a man called to the ministry is called to be a different kind of being from other men. According to Jesus Christ, he is...
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I'm in love. →
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Love as God Intended
If I knew how to reblog myself, I would do that, instead. However, I’ll just go old school and cut and paste. But I think everyone needs to read this - and I’m not trying to be egotistical by saying that. :) It even helps me to reread it sometimes, because it’s a stumbling block for me, and a common trap that I constantly fall into.
We live in a culture of romance, where girls...
If I never get married, I shall hope to be a perpetual student. I’ll get my masters in clinical psychology, then go for one in Spanish. Then one in medical anthropology. I’ll become a APN. I’ll get a doctorate in something, maybe psychology. After that, I’ll travel. I’ll study the cultures. I’ll work in clinics across the globe. I’ll do as much good as I...
Do you ever feel like you were born into the wrong era? I do. Constantly. People tell me so, as well. Constantly.
If you do feel such as I do, would you please tell me in which time period you wished you lived? I’d like to feel I’m not so alone in my musings.
For me, I’m torn between Regency England, the Edwardian era, and the 1940s.
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January 2012
44 posts
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“Get into the habit of saying ‘Speak, Lord,’ and life will become a...”
– Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
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“You can never be overdressed or overeducated”
– Oscar Wilde
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“I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible...”
– ― L.M. Montgomery
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“I’d like to add some beauty to life. I don’t exactly want to make...”
– Anne Shirley, Anne of Avonlea
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“Be a girl with a mind, a woman with an attitude, and a lady with class.”
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Friendship
Mrs. Allan: We make our own lives wherever we are, after all...They are broad or narrow according to what we put into them, not what we get out. Life is rich and full here...everywhere...if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fulness.
Anne: I think I understand what you mean, and I know I have so much to feel thankful for...oh, so much...my work, and Paul Irving, and the dear twins, and all my friends. Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
Mrs. Allan: True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed, and we should have a very high ideal of it, and never sully it by any failure in truth and sincerity. I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that has nothing of real friendship in it.
Anne: Yes..like Gertie Pye's and Julia Bell's. They are very intimate and go everywhere together; but Gertie is always saying nasty things of Julia behind her back and everybody thinks she is jealous of her because she is always so pleased when anybody criticizes Julia. I think it is desecration to call that friendship. If we have friends we should look only for the best in them and give them the best that is in us, don't you think? Then friendship would be the most beautiful thing in the world.
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“How fair the realm imagination opens to the view”
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Reason #28 to take Latin: to learn how Catullus and Ovid colonized your subconscious by helping to predetermine your attitudes toward romantic love
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“Beauty gives herself to those who give her time.”
– Julia Vidmar
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Two Cents
Movies I’ve watched today that have been surprisingly good:
Agora (2009)
El lapiz del carpintero (2003)
And then one not so wonderful….
Tesis (1996)
I’m not one for sadistic men romping around creating snuff films. Just…no.
(And for the record, these movies were for a class.)
Si esta pudiera ser mi tarea por siempre….
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“People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the...”
– St. Augustine
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Go goggle the protein laminin and tell me that Christ isn’t real. Laminin, the protein that holds our cells together; Christ Jesus, the Savior that holds us together. Paul had it right: “In Him all things hold together” (Col. 1: 17)
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“With a prompter in every cellar window whispering comebacks, shy people would...”
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Anonymous asked: Why don't you ever post pictures of yourself?
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