March 2012
0 posts
Yawning or trembling →
May God forgive me for using His word to get an intellectual or emotional high when it is living and active and sharper than any sword. May God forgive me for treating His word like a toy when it’s a weapon to sever my flesh from my soul and enable me to run the race set before me.
May God forgive me for yawning when I should be trembling.
February 2012
3 posts
thirst
Background: Intervarsity is tabling this week on the plaza with the question, “What are you thirsty for?” We have bins that say “Love,” “Success,” “Purpose,” and “Fun,” and we’re asking people to drop a red cup into the bin that represents what they think our campus is thirsty for.
I asked a girl with short blond hair what she...
Isaiah 55:10-11
As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Wow. What a promise.
January 2012
6 posts
prayer team skype
Kevin: Scott, listen to me.
Kevin: You're the only testosterone in this room right now.
Kevin: You need to carry the mantle.
Ivy: Hehe. Man-tle.
Wide Eyes: Big ways the internet is changing our... →
(via mega-mix)
THE INTERNET IS OUR EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE
We don’t have to remember phone numbers or addresses anymore. Instead, we can just hop on our email or Google to look it up. According to a study by Science Magazine, “the Internet has become a primary form of external or transactive memory, where information is stored collectively outside ourselves,” and our brains have become reliant on...
New Year's Questions →
whoaaaaa →
http://www.preceptaustin.org/
this website is so confusing and disorganized and has the longest pages ever not to mention an icky horizontal scrollbar and it is in need of a serious makeover.
but the commentaries are so dense and they go verse by verse and they use notes from a bunch of different theologians and they take you back to the original language and they link you to relevant sermons...
on a God who chooses not to control
We need to get rid of the notion that God has a plan and God has everything under control. What happens is not God’s plan being unfurled. God does not have everything under control. If God had everything under control, we would not be hearing the stories we’re hearing about Penn State University today about children being abused - that is not God’s plan. That is not God’s...
December 2011
12 posts
strobe light →
Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me? - John Green
Do you ever wonder why such a perfect God would love such a wretched creature as me? I always wonder about that. If I could see myself the way God sees me...
the gift of crying →
on experiencing God because of God →
read it! it’s short! this is one of the things i’ve been learning this semester! don’t you love it when you read something awesome and you’re like THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I’VE WANTED TO SAY ALL ALONG
we need a word for that thrilling flash of recognition you get when you stumble across some sentence, some paragraph in some henceforth sacred book, which says exactly...
sunahpark:
“College is a temporary season of academic preparation and growth so that you can serve God more effectively with the rest of your adult life. If you’ve chosen to go to college, then God’s plan is that college be a springboard into all that goes on with responsible Christian adulthood. Consider every commitment you make, every activity you sign up for, every class you choose, in light...
star wars snowflakes →
TEEHEE :)
THERE’S JUST NO WAY TO KEEP IT INNN
God is good. God is good. God is good.
:)
“When I trained as a physician, I learned the art of medicine: how to listen, how...”
– Anne Bower (Curing or Healing?)
Hmm I like this definition of medicine.
Sixty Years of Memories →
the coolest part about this project, i think:
… it was a huge amount of fun to collect and collate all of these memories, many of them occuring years before I was even born. It gave me a different picture of my dad, one woven together by all the people from his past, all those people who—-weirdly, peripherally, slowly, surely—-put into action the sequence of events that led to...
How We're Doing: Columbia Spectator →
I used to think there was something seriously wrong with me, because my life looked nothing like the Columbia admissions brochure. Judging by The Blue Album, Columbia students are “embraced” by the “warmth of a close-knit community.” They are flawless, radiant, and successful. They do research while juggling classes and community service, throwing Frisbees on the lawn, and hitting SoHo every...
November 2011
7 posts
Silent Night? Yeah, Right. →
Advent, which means “coming,” is a time of preparation, but it’s not the kind of preparation that has come to define American Christmas culture. It’s not the “Martha” kind of preparation in which we scurry around buying presents and decorating our homes just so. It’s not even the kind of preparation we usually witness before a wedding day, even though a wedding is also an important metaphor in...
Letting Go: What should medicine do when it can’t... →
(on the role of medicine for the terminally ill)
excerpt 1:
The difference between standard medical care and hospice is not the difference between treating and doing nothing, she explained. The difference was in your priorities. In ordinary medicine, the goal is to extend life. We’ll sacrifice the quality of your existence now—by performing surgery, providing chemotherapy, putting you in...
Death and all his friends
stuffthathappenedtomeenz:
Today, my high school math teacher committed suicide.
I remember him as being kind and loud and funny and hilariously sarcastic, the type of witty, sharp sarcasm you just can’t help but smile at. Though I had him as a sophomore, I would visit him during my remaining high school years, seeking his advice and counsel and sharing a good laugh or two during those visits....
October 2011
2 posts
God, you are CRAZY crazy good
Thank you for dumping all of this goodness on me this week hahaha :)
tooooo many good conversations to count! okay, no such thing as too many good conversations :) …okay, i will proceed to count them anyways :)
unexpected and encouraging card from Mr. Wu! :DD
bumping into Sharon Y at the great hall and talking about testimonies and fellowships and God stuff
email chain with one of the...
blessed be your name
praises from the last two weeks. should start doing this more often.
prayer team meetings!! sharing struggles and being lifted up in prayer
being lifted up by upperclassmen and being reminded that i’m never in this alone. also, persistence in not letting me get away with pretending to be okay. also, encouragement to keep up with quiet times.
perspective. also, struggles.
life stories...
September 2011
6 posts
oranges
today i opened my backpack and found two lovely surprises… hehehe…
also, this is amazing:
2 Corinthians 3: 7-18
Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, fading though it was, will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? If...
2 Corinthians 2:12 - 3:6
Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me, I still had no peace of mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said good-by to them and went on to Macedonia.
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him. For we are...
you become like the face of the one whom you love
Thus in worship Christians seek in the power of the Spirit to be conformed to the image of Christ - to act like him, think like him, be like him. There is a folktale that offers a parable of this endeavour. Once there was a rich man. He met and fell in love with a young maiden. She was lovely in form, and lovelier still in character. He rejoiced when he saw her. Yet he grieved also. For he knew...
1 tag
Disney Princesses In Accurate Period Costume
Pocahontas based on 17th century Powhatan costume
Cinderella’s dress is based in the mid-1860′s
Jasmine is based on rare drawings of pre-Islamic Middle Eastern fashion
Sleeping Beauty based on the year 1485
Ariel’s dress is based on 1890′s evening gown fashion
Belle’s dress is based on 1770′s French court fashion
Artist: Claire Hummel
August 2011
4 posts
This →
please enjoy.
(from eulachon)
WatchCOOOOL
Chinese Officials Seized and Sold Babies, Parents... →
AAUGH.
famine in somalia
Somalis Waste Away as Insurgents Block Escape From Famine
Somalia Photos
this makes my insides hurt :(
July 2011
2 posts
reading as of late
on justifying downtime browsing at work by reading sciency type articles
The Good Short Life
on a man with ALS… not sure what I think of it all yet, but good read
How Exercise Can Keep The Brain Fit
on… how exercise can keep the brain fit, duh
The Cancer Report
on a journalist’s battle against cancer
Farm living: effects on childhood asthma and allergy
on things to do...
10 Myths About Introverts →
June 2011
4 posts
This is for all of you women out there who are...
thereisabetterway:
We might as well admit it now, we are scared. (Or at least we used to be.) We fear that we will be rejected, abandoned, that we will take the risk of showing our beauty and be turned away, left alone. And so, out of fear, we try to save ourselves. Think this is a new idea? Or something that we’re creative in doing and should be okay with? Well, check out what God has to say...
alexissmith:
I realized how messed up our society is today.
I saw this car today and it had all of these bumper stickers. One was a Jesus fish, another was a dove with the word peace on it, there was another that had the word freedom made into an american flag, one saying NoBama, then another that said abortion is not healthcare, and one speaking of war and “God bless America.”
And I realized...
What Kind Of Guy Should I Be Looking For?
jedbrewer:
One of the most common – and most beautiful – attributes amongst Christian ladies is a desire to nurture. A desire to comfort, and encourage, and serve.
In the right context, this is an amazing, Godly aim. In the wrong context, it will really mess you up.
What tends to happen for a lot of Christian gals is that they see a guy who is – and this is a theological phrase – a wounded...
April 2011
1 post
http://metoocampaign.tumblr.com →
Duke? Duke is a lot of things. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned here, it’s that we are so so… broken.
February 2011
1 post
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is...”
– Mother Teresa (via autumnfringes)
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
2 posts
i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth day of life and love and wings:and of the gay great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing ...