February 2012
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“For Caroline Gill was thirty-one, and she had been waiting a long time for her...”
– The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards
psychosis.
I’ve been in my head a lot these days. I’m usually in a state of limbo between getting overwhelmed by the general goings-on of life and drifting as far as I can from reality.
The thing about spending a lot of time being cooped up in your own head is that if you ever happen to come up for air, you notice that the distance between reality and your perception of things has gotten wider...
January 2012
5 posts
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Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be...
Romans 12:12 (ESV)
I would really like to be exceptional at something.
December 2011
16 posts
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He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I...
Revelation 22:20 (ESV)
This Christmas...
There’s a strange feeling of anticipation lingering somewhere in my gut.
Not really the fluttery kind, like how I used to feel the night before Christmas when I was a kid, or the way it feels when you’re about to see a special friend.
I am simply convinced that Jesus is coming tomorrow.
It’s been a rough year. That’s not to say that it’s been a bad year, but it was...
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The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before His angels.
Revelation 3:5 (ESV)
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But I have this against you, that you have...
Revelation 2:4 (ESV)
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Do not let your adorning be external - the braiding of hair, the wearing of gold, or the putting on of clothing - but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.
1 Peter 3:3-4 (ESV)
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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and...
Hebrews 13:8 (ESV)
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For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Hebrews 12:11 (ESV)
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For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:15-16 (ESV)
Disillusionment.
Today, for the first time in my life, I saw with utter clarity just how human my parents are.
When I was little, it just never occurred to me that my parents had thoughts and feelings and dreams just like me. I would pretend to still be sleeping when we got home at night from a long road trip because I just didn’t feel like getting up on my feet and walking into the house, and wanted my dad...
I'm looking to develop some new good habits.
I want to exercise and take care of my body, though I’ve never, ever, ever been good at that. I usually eat what I want and bum around as much as I want, but I have a feeling all of this eating and bumming is resulting in me feeling 5 years older than I actually am. Last year I wanted to take walks and go hiking and waterfall-hunting; this year, I will make sure I follow through.
I want to...
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I have fought the good fight, I have finished the...
2 Timothy 4:7 (ESV)
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The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display His perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in Him for eternal life.
1 Timothy 1:15-16 (ESV)
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I can do all things through Him who strengthens...
Philippians 4:13 (ESV)
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Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Philippians 4:8 (ESV)
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And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in...
Galatians 6:9 (ESV)
November 2011
25 posts
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If I must boast, I will boast of the things that...
2 Corinthians 11:30 (ESV)
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But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.
2 Corinthians 4:7-9 (ESV)
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If I have all faith, so as to remove mountains,...
1 Corinthians 13:2 (ESV)
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letter no.10: to the person i wish i could be
Happy 50th birthday, mom!
I may not always be grateful and I may not always treat you right, but I hope you know that I will always, always, always take your side. I will always defend you, always argue your case, and always fight the people who try to bring you down. Even if it means that I’ll always have a strained relationship with dad.
I don’t know what I would do without you....
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But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
1 Corinthians 1:27-29 (ESV)
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Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how inscrutable His ways!
For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been His counselor? Or who has given a gift to Him that He might be repaid?
For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen.
Romans 11:33-36 (ESV)
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For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor...
Romans 8:38-39 (ESV)
AMEN.
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Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Romans 8:26 (ESV)
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Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from...
Romans 7:24-25 (ESV)
inspiration.
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Or do you presume on the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
Romans 2:4 (ESV)
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For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal...
Romans 1:20 (ESV)
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But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
Acts 20:24 (ESV)
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Took a stroll down memory lane today.
I’m not sure what prompted me to do it. Probably because I have a test tomorrow that I have to study for, so the past few hours have consisted of studying for maybe 30 minutes at a time and taking hour-long breaks of doing anything and everything, including some unnecessary memory-lane-strolling.
I have a tendency to lose myself in whatever I’m reading. If I’m in the middle of...
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Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands, as the prophet says,
“Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest? Did not my hand make all these things?”
Acts 7:48-50 (ESV)
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Now there are also many other things that Jesus...
John 21:25 (ESV)
Time, slow down for me.
It’s strange. Most nights I start getting ready for bed around 10:00. And then by the time I’m ready to curl up in bed with a Friends rerun lulling me to sleep, I check the time again and it’s already almost midnight. What am I doing with those two hours?
I had a meeting with my adviser a few days ago. He listened to all my worries and anxieties, answered all my questions, said...
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Why did God curse Eve with loneliness and heartache, an emptiness that nothing would be able to fill? Wasn’t her life going to be hard enough out there in the world, banished from the Garden that was her true home, her only home, never able to return? It seems unkind. Cruel, even.
He did it to save her. For as we all know personally, something in Eve’s heart shifted at the Fall....
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As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.”
John 9:1-3 (ESV)
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He must increase, but I must decrease.
John 3:30 (ESV)