July 2012
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Sometimes when I’m tired, stressed, worried, or just troubled, I try and find an exceptionally tall tree. If there’s a grove of trees, I single out the tallest among them. Then I try and see if I can spot it’s highest-most leaf. I mean the one leaf that is at the very very tippy-top of the tree. And when I find that leaf, I like to imagine how that leaf feels.
And everything...
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FIRST YEAR OF SEMINARY: ON PARTICULARLY BAD DAYS
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Last night there was a storm.
With rain.
It was a great blessing to many in my area.
I spent most of it watching television late into the night, and my cat spent most of it freaking out.
When it first began, she came into the room that I refer to as “The One With the T.V. and Chair”, and she would walk along in a low crouched position. As if she needed to make her way to me, but felt that traveling as low to...
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orsons:
Words of Love | Buddy Holly
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“Well Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’m not very good at - at public speaking,...”
– Buster Keaton (at 70 yrs. old)
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WHEN A RELATIVE ASKS ME TO PRAY BECAUSE "I'M THE...
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I want to say:
Instead I go:
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TRYING TO TALK ABOUT POLITICS IN CHURCH AS THE...
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Trying really hard to have sympathy.
And be understanding
And patient
But all I keep screaming in my head is:
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I TOLD YOU WAS GOING TO HAPPEN!
But I can’t say that.
Should people be allowed to complain about a circumstance they entered into willingly, after disregarding previous advice against their actions?
Deep breaths.
Have sympathy. And understanding. And...
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Thoughts on Boy Scouts and Boycotting
For the later half of this summer, I’ve been hired as a sort of intern at my hometown church so that I can get the feel for behind-the-scenes type work in a church before I head back to school. As part of my education, my pastor has invited me to sit in on various board/committee meetings. This evening was a fairly major administrative board meeting, that is only really held once every...
“When I was growing up, I felt that mathematics was this arbitrary set of rules...”
– John Green (via knotsinmyhair)
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kenopsia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet—a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds—an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs.
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“Speaking on behalf of the cast and crew of The Dark Knight Rises, I would like...”
– Christopher Nolan (via adrianmurren)
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“While I was still young, before I went on my travels, I sought wisdom openly in...”
– Ecclesiastes 51:13-14
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Is it just me, or does anyone else have to...
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I have a strange, yet powerful, urge to do the...
Watch Thor (2011), for the first time. (Note: I’ve previously never been very interested in seeing it, despite my love for cinematic superheroes. I don’t know why I want to see it now of all times, but I do. I really do.)
Drink a lot of wine. Or a little bit of wine. I just want some wine.
Eat some gourmet pizza. You know, the kind with the mozzarella that’s so fresh it...
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