January 2011
4 posts
October 2010
2 posts
This is what's been exciting me lately:
— plans to force bulbs! I’m going to try paperwhites and daffodils.
— Having two super cool new roommates!
— pumpkin chocolate chip muffins.
— getting out of armchairs and unexpectedly treading on dinosaurs :)
— bulk-food storage containers! I really would like to get some nice, durable, air-tight containers for our flours and sugars.
— Venus...
September 2010
2 posts
Love Song by Ranier Maria Rilke
How shall I hold my soul that it may not Be touching yours? How shall I lift it then Above you to where other things are waiting? Ah, gladly would I lodge it, all forgot, With some lost thing the dark is isolating On some remote and silent spot that, when Your depths vibrate, is not itself vibrating. You and me – all that lights upon us, though, Brings us together like a fiddle-bow ...
August 2010
1 post
July 2010
1 post
IF you were coming in the fall,
I’d brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn
As housewives do a fly.
If I could see you in a year,
I’d wind the months in balls,
And put them each in separate drawers,
Until their time befalls.
If only centuries delayed,
I’d count them on my hand,
Subtracting till my fingers dropped
Into Van Diemen’s land.
If...
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
1 post
“Jesus summed up commonsense carefulness in the life of a disciple as unbelief....”
– Oswald Chambers (via whomshallifear)
March 2010
5 posts
Excerpt from Disposable People by Kevin Bale
“What’s it like being an Indian farm laborer in debt bondage? You can get a sense of their daily life by trying the following experiment at home.
“In the kitchen, find a bag of rice, or even better some plain, un-ground wheat. Fill up a coffee mug four times with the rice or wheat. Now feed a family of five for one day with the grain you have measured. For every meal...
“The more men a woman dates, the more practice she gets at giving her heart away,...”
– Candice Waters, “Good Reasons to Marry Young” in Boundless Webzine
“In every Christian’s heart there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is...”
– A. W. Tozer (via whomshallifear)
“You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the...”
– Romans 8:9a
February 2010
11 posts
“Let you alone! That’s all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need...”
– Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury (via fatalistichues) (via quote-book)
Martyrdom is not a thing of the past.
Nor does it only happen in places like India or China.
Three days ago, two Christian street-preachers were shot and killed in Florida by a young man they had been witnessing to moments earlier. In national media, it’s only got a teeny-tiny little Associated Press story; never would have heard of it if I hadn’t been following the Voice of the Martyrs Persecution blog. The only detailed...
The Simple Woman's Daybook
February 8th, 2010 Outside my window…soft snowflakes are slowly sifting down from Emily’s leaden sieve. I am thinking…I ought to be doing something else. I am thankful for…God keeping me safe when I lightly tapped the brakes at 6:30 this morning for a stoplight and it was enough to send my car into a slow-motion sliiiiide and 120 degree rotation almost into the...
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions,...”
– Oscar Wilde, De Profundis. (I thought it would do to offer this in light of my recent mania for the re-blog button.)
“Any idiot can face a crisis - it’s day to day living that wears you out.”
– Anton Chekhov (via simtan) (via quote-book)
January 2010
9 posts
1/24/2010 3:29pm
I have suddenly a great sense of anticipation. I think very, very soon in some way or other we are going to see the glory of the Lord in the land of the living. You heard it here first. :)
“A Christian publisher once told me, ‘You shouldn’t always write...”
– from Set-Apart Feminity by Leslie Ludy, Ch. 8: Sacred Claim
Mark Driscoll tells of 'hell' in Haiti →
Horror. There are no words for this kind of thing.
“Moses said to the LORD, “O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in...”
– Exodus 4:10-12
Heart of God Ministries →
I found this today, and something about it is poking me right in the tender, growing, wide-eyed part of my soul. It sounds so right, and so exciting, and so scary. It is making me think and pray.
What really spoke to me was the lifetime-commitment aspect of it. There is such an emphasis on short-term missions these days—people biffing off to far corners of the globe to do their good deed...
“Taken in the right spirit these very things will give us patient endurance; this...”
– Elisabeth Elliot, Passion and Purity, Ch. 17
“Waiting. It means:
Steadfastness, that is holding on;
Patience, that is...”
– S. D. Gordon, excerpted in Passion and Purity by Elisabeth Elliot
I love how wherever we have lived in Colorado, we have never been beyond the distant, lonely call of the train whistles.
January 1, 2010
There is something about the date that looks so clean and pure and hard. Like a crystal pillar catching the light.
December 2009
4 posts
“Why are you looking…for love?
Why are you still searching…as if...”
– Tenth Avenue North, “By Your Side”
Unprecedented Christmas Gathering held in Vietnam →
In a gathering of modern-day sermon on the mount proportions, 40,000 in Vietnam came together to hear a gospel message against great odds.
Click and check out this manly Dockers ad.... →
November 2009
8 posts
“The whole trouble is that people think there are circumstances when one may deal...”
– Tolstoy in “Ressurection”
“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God...”
– I think my favorite song of this holiday season is going to be “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” which is a little strange because it is one tune that I’ve never appreciated at all in the past. :)
“Why should I start at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my...”
