February 2012
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Empathy Test →
I took this test out of curiosity and got a 31. I don’t think I’m an empathy-less robot but more like oblivious to social cues and therefore more on the socially inept side…. I think that’s totally why people think I’m so weird.
eyesacrosstheavenue:
0 - 32 = low (most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 20) 33 - 52 = average...
exclamation/: reaction to revelations →
exclamate:
so it’s sunday morning and i should be at church but i’m not because i unconsciously turned off all the 10 alarms that i set, then slept my happy way into 11:30. tried getting out but it was too cold, and the second i was under my covers again, i was out. woke up to the soft drizzle of rain and…
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World Press Photo of the Year →
I highly highly highly suggest clicking through the gallery in that link. It is so amazingly astounding, the photographs are beautiful and sorrowful, and the subjects tell the story of this world we live in.
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“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition...”
– C. S. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory,” in The Weight of Glory and other Essays. (via kaptivatedtruth)
I am far too easily pleased. what joy Christ is.
“Grace isn’t leniency when we’ve sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to...”
– John Piper (via blakebaggott)
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listening prayer. →
finally what I’ve been feeling about listening prayer. I had always wondered why I couldn’t “hear” God’s voice when I was told to do listening prayer in high school, but I still complied to sometimes (albeit VERY scarcely) to at least try on my own. But because I so failed and never ‘heard’ the voice of God, I never felt inclined to do listening prayer...
January 2012
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None But You.
ringaroundtheturquoise:
Whose tears have soaked my collar dark? None but yours, no, none but yours. Whose sorrows leave the deepest mark? None but yours, no, none but yours.
Who gave herself to me alone? None but you, no, none but you. Who is the only one I’ve known? None but you, no, none but you.
There is no other I desire None but you, no, none but you. Til death my deepest friend, my...
the only ones.
beautiful things
dry bones
speeding cars
waters of march
the gambler
these are the only songs that played tonight on my spotify. this is an order i can take.
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Water in the Forest: “I will give you this, my... →
yes.
eyesacrosstheavenue:
“I will give you this, my love, and I will not bargain or barter any longer. I will love you, as sure as He has loved me. I will discover what I can discover and though you remain a mystery, save God’s own knowledge, what I disclose of you I will keep in the warmest chamber of my heart, the very…
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January is Anti-Slavery month →
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eat your vegetables kids
[about the greenman costume he has: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Green_man.jpg,--greenman]
v: Yup. it was all down between green man and gumby. went the allpurpose costume
m: Well you could also grab some bushes in your hands and be broccoli
v: And u can be the yellow kind
m: ..you mean cauliflower?
v: not tryin to be racist
jtanningbed asked: im picky cause i was made by a tree that spoke to me while i was singing to my turtle's abdomen
star moment.
no matter how ill-ly equipped I am. I will commit.
note to remember this.
FREEDOM is here: Prayer requests →
well if any of you wanted something to pray for, here is a convenient list of .001% of things in this world that could use some prayer
xinweizeng:
Pray for the abuse in the world, whether it be domestic, child, animal or sexual. Pray for the neglected and the weak, so that He will send defend and support his children. Pray that that God will open the eyes and hearts of the people around these...
A new want
There are too many things that I would like to say, but I feel like I need to express this simple, yet profound instance that the Lord has been showing me this weekend.
I DESIRED to read Leviticus.
I read and prayed through the Psalms, I read the gospels more so than anything this weekend, as well as letters in the New testament, but I did not read the old 5 books of the torah.
I’d been...
Soli Deo Gloria: Thoughts of the Day- Reformed... →
fivesolas:
It is good that we have a sense of what needs to be done, an emotional passion to do the holy things of God, yet we must ask the question of “what is true piety (holiness)?” Do not be persuaded that personal holiness is merely having a relationship with Christ, for adulterers and adulteresses…
December 2011
48 posts
You know what I call miracles like this.. →
the work of God.