I literally LOVE her. I usually cannot stand this kind of music or style of singing… but she rocks it. I love her. 

I never really post on here anymore because I’m convinced that nobody reads this or cares… but I feel like writing anyway in hopes that there might be someone that appreciates it.  I love this Eugene Peterson quote I posted a few weeks ago that we talked about in my Pastoral class in school and want to write part of it again:

“Teach us to be in wonder and adoration before the beauties of creation and the glories of salvation, especially as they come to us in these humans who have come to think of themselves as violated and degraded and rejected.”

I love that line. I want to be in wonder at the world and have the awe that children have. I got to hang out with two of my favorite kids tonight and couldn’t believe the energy and joy that is consistently exploding out of them. When does that go away? 

“Teach us not to care so that we have time and energy and space to realize that all our work is done on holy ground and in your holy name.”

I love that God doesn’t waste anything. I’ve spent so much time believing that my life is purposeless because it doesn’t look the way that I feel like a real “Christian’s” life should look. I want to “not care” and not worry and trust that God uses the decisions I make and has plans for my future and not stress and let go. 

“Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood. 
Teach us to care and not to care.
Teach us to sit still, even among these rocks. Amen.”

Sometimes it’s neccessary to go through trials and pain in life. That’s probably an obvious point. I would hope that God cares so much about my life that he will push me through difficult times so that I might know him better. 

And I desperately want to learn and have the strength to sit still in patience and trust. Even among “rocks” and problems that I feel a desperate need to fix. I want to learn to live above my circumstances and know that God’s love is better.

I’m sort of rambling now. I’m just tired and sleepy and feel like talking about God because I love him and yet I’m in a constant battle to please the world. I hate how much I care what people think of me. Just a thought. Good thing God loves broken people. 

Watching this is severely depressing me. I am so jealous that my school is doing this show the year after I graduate. 

They are gonna be amazing

levithepoet:

Or, at least, some observations that I’ve turned into conclusions. 

I realize this title makes it very easy to judge… but just give it a shot. This is both hilarious and full of truth. 

“Teach us the humility of not caring, so that we do not use anyone’s need as a workshop to cobble together makeshift, messianic work that inflates our importance and indispensability. Teach us to be in wonder and adoration before the beauties of creation and the glories of salvation, especially as they come to us in these humans who have come to think of themselves as violated and degraded and rejected. Teach us not to care so that we have time and energy and space to realize that all our work is done on holy ground and in your holy name, that people and communities in need are not a wasteland where we feverishly and faithlessly set up shop, but a garden, a rose garden in which we work contemplatively.
Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood.
Teach us to care and not to care.
Teach us to sit still, even among these rocks. Amen.”

keatontyndall:

God’s place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things. 
- Christopher McCandless, Into the Wild 

3You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind [both its inclination and its character] is stayed on You, because he commits himself to You, leans on You, and hopes confidently in You.

beauty

keeganelisabeth:

Strengthen the feeble hands,
steady the knees that give way;
say to those with fearful hearts,
“Be strong, do not fear;
your God will come,
he will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution
he will come to save you.”

Soon my eyes will see the full extent of the beauty of my King,…

josephjk:

I have begun to learn to wait.  

I know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty.  

“Truly my heart waits silently for God;

    my deliverance comes from him.  

In truth he is my rock of deliverance, 

    my tower of strength, so that I stand unshaken…..

    Trust always in God, my people,

    pour out your hearts before him;

    God is our shelter.”

-Elizabeth Elliot 

My blood is young and restless; waiting silently is the hardest thing of all!