February 2011
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“There must be more than this provincial life”
– Belle, Beauty and the Beast
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Change
New contacts prescription, new phone, new haircut, and (hopefully!) new job. Today’s a great day.
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I'm listed in Tumblweeds under cute,...
I’m listed in Tumblweeds, a user-generated community directory that rates Tumblr bloggers by their number of followers. Find me listed in #cute, #inspirational, #christian
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Current love: Spanish classical guitar. Doesn’t the very mention of that just melt your bones and make you all warm inside? Seriously. It I could just have a Spaniard follow me around all the time with a guitar, serenading me - well, that would just be marvelous and magical. I think I would be forever happy.
Listen to it. Check it out. It’ll make you happy, lift your spirits, cause...
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“I hope to contribute to a global warming of hearts and a climate change in human...”
– Q’Orianka Kilcher
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Dear, The Honey Trees,
Please, please, please come out with a new album. Your EP is just not enough for me anymore. I listen to it daily, but I’m selfish and want more of your beautiful music to serenade me through by day.
Sincerely, Kelsey
P.S. the same goes for you, too, The Civil Wars. I’d greatly appreciate more of your artistic talent in my iTunes, and on my Grooveshark...
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Arvide Abernathy: And I never saw until now how much in love with him you are.
Sergeant Sarah Brown: I'll get over it.
Arvide Abernathy: Why would anyone want to get over the one thing you hope for from the minute you're born and remember until the day you die?
Sergeant Sarah Brown: I'll get over it.
Arvide Abernathy: Why? Because it's the greatest reward that woman or man can have on this earth? To love and to be loved?
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True Proficiency
She cannot expect to excel, if she does not practise a great deal…I often tell young ladies that no excellence in music is to be acquired, without constant practise.
I think, in this one instance, Lady Catherine might have been right.
I know I’ll never be truly good at piano - or dance, or drawing, for that matter - if I never practice consistently. I listen to Beethoven’s...
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“I think about the years I spent just passing through
I’d like to have the...”
– Rascal Flats, God Bless the Broken Road
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“Elizabeth Elliot says she is often asked the question, ‘What can I do to...”
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Isn’t it marvelous that today, all around the world, people will be gathering, in public and in secret, from Chicago, to Paris, Mumbai, Buenas Aires, Santo Domingo, and Cairo, to praise the Almighty Lord? So, when you lift your voice today in adoration to the One who paid your sins, remember: you’re singing with the multitudes, my friend, both here on earth and above in the heavens.
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Love as God Intended.
We live in a culture of romance, where girls search for their “Prince Charming,” and men search for their “trophy wife.” I admit, that might be a generalized statement, but I believe it’s more or less true. This a world where girls seek to feel “fulfilled,” “lovely,” “lovable,” and “worthy” by having a boyfriend, and men...
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“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals...”
– Love Actually
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“If I’m honest, I have to tell you: I still read fairy tales, and I like...”
– Audrey Hepburn
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Intimacy, Redefined. →
In light of Valentine’s Day, I ask you this: how do you view intimacy?
Dan Allender’s phenomenal talk will encourage you to think about intimacy with another being - romantic or platonic - in a whole new way. Watch it, I dare you.
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Camp Timber-lee →
Every human being deserves to feel loved and important. And every girl deserves to feel beautiful. As someone who struggled throughout middle school, high school, and, even to an extent, college, with the idea that she “wasn’t worth anything,” I desire, from the deepest reaches of my heart, to speak these truths into children, and specifically girls. In a world that constantly tells them that they...
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“Dance me to Your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic...”
– Leonard Cohen, Dance Me to the End of Love
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You know that song by James Morrison,”Love is Hard”? I think he might have been on to something….
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This world needs Jesus more than they’ll ever realize, I fear.
Anonymous asked: Thank you for taking the time to explain your views on feminism. It was eloquently put. I would like to emphasize for you that the feminism you describe is mostly RADICAL feminism, a specific belief system which is something I disagree with. This is the man-hating, women are stronger and should dominate idea from the 60's and 70's. I really dislike this form of feminism as well, HOWEVER,...
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“I want adventure in the great wide somewhere; I want it more than I can tell....”
– Belle, Beauty and the Beast
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“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work…and I am in...”
– Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
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“We look for visions from heaven, for earthquakes and thunders of God’s...”
– O. Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest.
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Absolutely lovely blog. Check it out. It'll make... →
Anonymous asked: I interpret feminism as the availability of choice and the expectation that society will respect choices made by people of any gender regardless of their own personal beliefs. For example, I believe we all, as human beings, have the right to marry or not marry, have children, or not have children, be a mechanic, a doctor or a mother, whatever your calling may be. If I am born a woman and find my...
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Hurt people hurt people. Free people free people. →
Hurt people hurt people. Free people free people. If you have some time, watch this. Please. It shook me, rocked me, and changed me.
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"What if your coffee could transform a village?"
It can.
Last fall, my church made the switch to fair trade coffee. A lover of coffee, but not quite an enthusiast, I didn’t really think too much of it. Until today. When a “Coffee Ambassador” - yes, there is such a thing - from the company, Land of a Thousand Hills, through which we receive our coffee, came and talked to the congregation about the story behind the beans.
I...
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“Love will come to save us, if we’ll only call. He will ask nothing from us, but...”
– Warren Barfield, Love is Not a Fight
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