“So many people glorify and romanticize “busy”. I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you’re always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves lands shift and earth quakes.”
—Joseph Cook (via inkdroptheory)
June 2013
10 posts
“I am fallen, flawed, and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength.”
—Adam Young of Owl City (via itsallaboutchrist)
how scary is it that we teach our little girls that a wedding is the end of the story.
I’m so frustrated it’s out of control.
Your lack of respect. Not to me, but to her… drives me insane.
You’re allowed to take advantage of me, but you are not allowed to take advantage of her more than she’s already agreed.
This is where I draw my line.
“You can keep sinning, and God will just keep forgiving you, no matter what. This is true, but it doesn’t matter, because: you don’t want to keep sinning. Sin has, time and again failed on its promise to satisfy, and God has always satisfied. God isn’t afraid of the bond you have with your sin because He knows it’s already letting you down. You want more, and He wants more for you.”
—Unka Glen (via suntanintexas)
“To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of faith rests upon accepting being loved by God, and therefore to believe is to say Yes, not only to him, but to creation, to creatures, above all, to men, to try to see the image of God in each person and thereby to become a lover. That’s not easy, but the basic Yes, the conviction that God has created men, that he stands behind them, that they aren’t simply negative, gives love a reference point that enables it to ground hope on the basis of faith.”
—Pope Benedict XVI (via yesdarlingido)
“‘If the girl had been worth having she’d have waited for you?’ No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via thatkindofwoman)
“It’s so rare and so fantastic when someone loves you so much that they don’t need you to love them back to make it work. And this is the kind of love that God has for you - a love that lets you relax. This is also the kind of love God wants to cultivate within you for other people - one that goes beyond all need for acceptance.”
—from the June BridgeBox Devotional (via suntanintexas)
May 2013
25 posts
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”
—Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (via yesdarlingido)
“How long have you been married?”
“34 years.”
“What is the key to a successful marriage?”
“It has to be 100 percent.”
“Commitment?”
“No, marriage has to be 100 percent, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be 50/50. If one person can’t give 50 percent because of work or health or something else the other person has to be ready to give 60 percent or more.”
Just one of those days where I am reminded once again that good intentions are not enough.
HAWT YOGA
Hot yoga is a little short of torture at temperatures that rival the pits of hell. Yet, for the past 2 weeks, I keep going back.
For someone who has slept through more 8:30 classes than I would like to admit, finding the motivation to wake up at 5 AM… is pretty much a miracle.
Why do I like it?
1. You sweat. A LOT.
I’m one of those old fashioned people that doesn’t feel like I’ve worked out unless I’m dripping with sweat. Working out in a furnace tends to speed up that whole process and makes me feel like I’m doing something other than breaking my ligaments and limbs.
2. There’s community, yet isolation.
It’s really rare to be in a situation where you’re doing very vulnerable things in a room full of people. Things you’ve never done with your body before as you try to move through the postures, and know that you’re not being judged. There’s such a focus on paying attention to your body, your state of being, the present moment. Yet everyone does everything in sync. I like it.
3. It’s forces me to at least be okay with and even appreciate my body.
It’s hard to come out of 90 minutes of swimming in my own sweat while simultaneously contorting my body into impossible positions and not thank your body for dealing with the torture I just put it through.
4. What you put in, you get out.
I drink 4 cups of water during those 90 minutes, yet I still come out of the class a pound lighter. Yeah. It’s that disgusting. But in 2 short weeks I’ve seen the importance of eating well, sleeping well, drinking water. It MAKES A DIFFERENCE. I’ve been eating close to vegetarian these past two weeks…. and switching over to a plant-based diet is actually really tempting.
4. It helps me start my day off right. Talking to God.
Partially because at least once in the 90 minute session, I feel like it may be my time to go be with the Lord, but I find myself talking to him a lot in those 90 minutes. Whether it be asking Him not to let me see His face quite yet. Or just talking about my day. It’s been fun to start off my days in such a manner.
“I’m a damsel. I’m in distress. I can handle this. Have a nice day.”
—Meg, Hercules (Disney)
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earth pleasure were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessing, and on the other, never to mistakes them for something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.”
—Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis (via roadtojjoy)
