cleaning.

time to clean out the ol' Bible.

yay treasures.

i find rest in You.

Matthew 11:28-30

Ah rest, there is nothing sweeter.

The peace that fills you,

the joy that bubbles up,

and that feeling of being sustained,

being whole,

being pure,

being right with Him.

There is absolutely nothing like it in the world.

Nothing.

Without His hope,

His love,

His utter goodness,

there's nothing.

neighbor.

Love to one's neighbor has the very perfection of the eternal. Is it really perfection belonging to love that its object is the superior, the remarkable, the unique? I should thik that this would be a perfection of the object, and the perfection of the object would evoke a subtle suspicion concerning the perfection of the love. Is it an excellence in your love that it can love only the extraordinary, the rare? I should think it would be a merit belonging to the extraordinary and the rare, and that it is extraordinary and rare, but not a merit of the love for it. Are you not of the same opinion? Have you never meditate upon God's love? if it were love's merit to love the extraordinary, the God would be--if I dare say so---perplexed, for to him the extraordinary does not exist at all. The merit of being able to love only the extraordinary is therefore more like an accusation, not against the extraordinary nor against love, but against the love which can love love only the extraordinary.

-Soren Kierkegaard

wine, knitting & rain.

evening-time.

"Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted."

-Brennan Manning

hope; the ultimate anchor.

I love that verse,

that hope anchors the soul.

That God swore on Himself (a promise to Abraham)

so that he would know it was truth.

It's one of those things, that if you don't have it, you desperately miss it,

even if you don't know what you're missing.

Life without hope is pointless and fleeting and just plain exhausting.

Without hope, where's the push for the day-to-day things that you have to do.

Why would you do it, without hope of something?

I find I'm dumbfounded when confronted with a life like that,

a life that goes on and on never changing or growing...

The simplest description is that it's boring,

but more importantly it's lacking..

You could almost say it lacks life.

That "we have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf."

the h o p e of being near Him always.

Hebrews 6:13-20

spring.

Mortals, join the happy chorus,

which the morning stars began.

simply put.

“It is a fearful thing to hate whom God hath loved. To look upon another – his weaknesses, his sins, his faults, his defects – is to look upon one who is suffering. He is suffering from negative passions, from the same sinful human corruption from which you yourself suffer. This is very important, do not look upon him with judgmental eyes of comparison, noting the sins you assume you’d never commit. Rather, see him as a fellow sufferer, a fellow human being who is in need of the very healing of which you are in need. Help him, love him, pray for him – do unto him as you would have him do unto you.”

St. Tikhon of Zadonsk

suffering

"There is a tendency now in revisionist history

to explain the past in terms of movements and trends of the contemporary time. 

This is inevitably reductionist. 

The suffering of the people is forgotten; 

they become faceless, mere ciphers of a trend or dynamic of history. 

To sanitize history is to blaspheme against memory.

 Equally, to become obsessed with the past is to paralyze the future."

-John O'Donohue

breath of fresh air

time with family..

just being goofy.

lovely.

properly devoted.

If you are properly devoted to the Lord Jesus, 

you have reached the lofty height where no one would ever notice you personally.

-Oswald Chambers

visions of a fall:

"All men dream:

but not equally.

Those who dream by night

in the dusty recesses of their minds

wake in the day

to find that it was vanity:

but the dreamers of the day

are dangerous men,

for they may act their dream with open eyes,

to make it possible."

-T.E. Lawrence

thankfully there's always possibility found

new opportunties learning things that you thought unattainable.

to keep the taste-buds guessing:

-a delicious healthy apple pancake recipe.

-sweet spicy sweet potato cakes, recipe

-mooseballs...

-homey shepherd's pie, without potatoes, recipe

to philly:

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so...we're moving to philly, pa.

or well, a suburb of there.

should be quite soon now.

it's exciting and scary,

as all things of course.