January 2012
3 posts
I’m tired of preachers and preaching.
I want silence and love.
I want action with sincerity.
Glory.
2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
Prov 25:2
17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. 18 He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. 19Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
December 2011
7 posts
2012: Its so hard to not be competitive.
Even for passive people its hard.
When I look at the lives’ of all my friends and acquaintances, I get a little uneasy. Its so natural to look at what they have that I don’t, or what I have that they don’t.
Its so easy to pick out all you like and all you don’t.
And this kind of comparison does no good for anyone.
It brings such a heart of unthankfulness and...
“For the Lord’s portion is His people.”
– Deuteronomy
“The work of the United Nations reaches every corner of the globe. Although best known for peacekeeping, peacebuilding, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance, there are many other ways the United Nations and its System (specialized agencies, funds and programmes) affect our lives and make the world a better place. The Organization works on a broad range of fundamental issues, from...
“i think failure is a figment of our imagination.”
– sandra vargas
November 2011
5 posts
and i don’t even like cheesy music.
oh, wait
16 So the LORD said to Moses: “Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tabernacle of meeting, that they may stand there with you. 17 Then I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people...
something to imagine.
11 So Moses said to the LORD, “Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all these people on me? 12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to their fathers?13 Where am I to get meat to give to...
luchen por tus sueños.
I’ve been learning that almost every aspect of life is effected directly by how you think of yourself.
Work.
School.
Friendships.
Dreams.
All of it. What I think of myself will determine what I do or, better yet, what I hesitate from doing in life.
This whole thing of l-i-f-e is wrapped in a common concept; identity.
Its so important to realize who you are. To find the strength...
October 2011
5 posts
Loving others is the essence of worshipping God.
4 tags
It blows my m i n d, to know that God knows every detail and every minute of what and when things will happen.
I am in awe. And I am in pain.
All at the same time.
September 2011
6 posts
6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.” 8 So Moses made...
“A life of hesitations becomes a life of regrets.”
– Chris Brooks
p.s. i leave ‘morrow afternoon for 10 days in cali. it shall be beautiful.
p.s.s. ALSO- WISE school in 2 weeks.(I’m doing WISE! ha!) And I leave Mexico come end of this December. Doing an internship at the United Nations in Switzerland come 2012.
Decisions have been made! And life is looking lovely (:
August 2011
8 posts
“Scripture calls us into radical service—but that does not allow others to...”
– We Need Boring Christians, by Andrew Byers, RELEVENT MAGAZINE
Read the rest here http://www.relevantmagazine.com/god/deeper-walk/features/26398-we-need-boring-christians
its kind of weird when you’re 20 and for you not having a kid is “odd.” i mean a good 25 of my friends from my same grade are parents. it makes me wonder where i’d be if i had never left my hometown.
would i be a mom?
crazy thoughts.
where the windows go: Love is a temporary madness.... →
poethead:
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not…
I think all of us were created perfect. And its through our failures and detours in life that we’re led away from that beautiful Eden. But life is the journey back to perfection, back to the heart of our Savior. That’s what I think.
So don’t let anyone tell you you’re not the way you’re supposed to be, clearly you were created just the way you are for a very...
I will wrestle.
24 Then Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day. 25 Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. 26 And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.” But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!” 27 So He said to him, “What is your name?” ...
July 2011
25 posts
“If I fake it, I don’t have it.”
– What About Bob?— Billy Murray
sometimes your guts fall right out of you before you say what your heart is about to shout out.
sometimes the normal comfort and ease you would have around a person evaporates and all of a sudden you become aware of every single flutter of your eyelashes.
and sometimes, not often- but sometimes, you realize the reality that’s been staring you in the face all along.
“Indeed I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just and that His...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via an-dre-w)
Hi, my name is Sandra and I’m learning what it means to live free.
the world says,
“what you do, determines who you are.”
but what about, “who you are determines what you will do.”
and if you know who you are, you’ll know just how capable you are.
“There is stuff you will do when you’re fascinated that you won’t do when you’re...”
– Sean Feucht
1 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
some people will never take you for all that you are. they just can’t.
they don’t know how to live a life without taking things for granted.
I love Clive.
“He thinks great folly, child,” said Aslan. “This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear...
“if it doesn’t come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don’t do it....”
– So you want to be a writer - Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
amigos and amigas.
you know those kind of realizations that hit you really hard? the ones that pretty much smack you in the face with a frying-pan. those kind?
i’ve been having one of those, every day, for about a week. and its something i think i’ve known all along. maybe even realized before. but i’ve never liked the thought or sound of it.
the truth is: people will always fail you. friends....
