February 2012
4 posts
Watchtree.
“But when we keep listening attentively to the voice calling us the beloved, it...”
– Henri J. M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved
nova
i have touched down into dartmouth+halifax this week. i am here to rest in the home and light that Jesus is for me as well as in the presence of beck, my warm friend, and her main man, luke.
the air here is fresh. God has provided sunny blue skies since i stepped off the plane. luke took me on a tour of both cities yesterday and i soaked in as much culture as i could cling to. i took notes and...
January 2012
2 posts
Lord have mercy on my rough and rowdy ways.
i miss the day when i went on a long bike ride down a mountain in Santa Barbara. that was a blissful day.
December 2011
10 posts
“On this Remembrance Day, I will think of all those young men—boys, really—who...”
– Dr. Diane Enns
Invisible Children's 2011 Financial Report -... →
“Intention: An act of determining mentally upon some action or result. The end or...”
– Jason Russell Invisible Children Co-Founder
moral clarity
extravagant compassion
sacrificial courage
tenacious hope
refreshing joy.
“Because when we know the Other from within him—even if that Other is our...”
– Writing in the Dark, pp. 52-3
“We peer across an oceanic table at one another, marvel at our differences and...”
– Dr. Diane Enns
won’t you breathe on me?
won’t you come like the wind?
oh saints arise don’t close your eyes for the Lord has poured his grace on you. lift up your chin and worship him for the Lord rejoices over you!
you come like the sun with pockets full of redemption
October 2011
1 post
Lord, you are our home and light.
September 2011
1 post
The Water Is Black: Promise to wake me up →
thewaterisblack:
If you catch me with blood on my hands, when I am forty, with a cul-de-sac comforter and plenty of soft and malleable money in the bank, If you catch me with blood on my hands, because my heart has hardened to the softness of empathy, and my cage is not the earth and the…
June 2011
2 posts
“Many films diminish us. They cheapen us, masturbate our senses, hammer us with...”
– Roger Ebert
May 2011
4 posts
“what is God asking of me? in that place of resistance in me that says ‘i...”
– the power of powerlessness, wendy gritter
“by Wendell Berry
From The Country of Marriage (Harcourt, 1975)
Love the quick...”
“Here is a revolutionary practice everyone should try: Take a bill from your...”
“The small man
Builds cages for everyone
He
Knows.
While the sage,
Who has...”
– Hafiz
“it must be so hard, in the mess you’re always cleaning up,
to believe in...”
– silhouettes, sleeping at last
April 2011
3 posts
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it....”
– Howard Thurman
in the meantime
fear is illogical math- an impractical skill to have. still, we talk of our future ‘til we have no voice; we’ll try to outsmart it with noise.
but here, in the meantime, may the unknown harvest life.
we’re conditioned to mourn our empty glass long before it ever poured out our past. though our patience is always in short supply, we’ll leave our farsighted worries...
March 2011
14 posts
“war is the great confession of human failure- that we are failing to be human...”
– Ronald Trojcak
““Have compassion for everyone you meet,
even if they don’t want it.
What...”
“Have compassion for everyone you meet,
even if they don’t want it.
What...”
– Miller Williams.
“I was in a house on fire. It was surrounded. The soldiers surrounding it
were...”
– I Was in a House on Fire - Anis Mojgani
i can’t help but hope for brighter here in the shadows of letting go. God, may these good intentions be the outline of so much more.
“you hear people say all the time that guns don’t kill people, people kill...”
– pam cushing
tell me again how peace is just a nice idea that...
“over the past 15 years military victories have resolved only 7.5% of conflicts, while negotiations and mediation have prevailed in 92% of cases”
Shad is the man.
Shad: A proposal for next year’s Juno Awards By Brad Frenette 23 Mar 2011 [Shad, named the best rapper in Canada by National Post, thinks awards shows like the Junos should shine a light on those unsung people in our country who have “devoted their lives to building a better society”. Credit: Steve Bosch/Vancouver Sun] by Shadrach Kabango So the Juno Awards are this weekend. I’ve been...
“so don’t shop at chapters because they support the israeli apartheid, or drink...”
– Adri
my roommate gets it.
“we let the tanks of capitalism roll right over us, while on the other side of...”
– jenny keto (via featherlightheart)
“There’s no shame in living in the red.
I’m not going to wait until...”
– Endless Mike and the Beagle Club
“the sky was a brilliant splash of colours. the kind of air that felt like if you breathed it in, your lungs would be dyed the same shade of blue.” - haruki murakami
“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was...
February 2011
9 posts
“All treasures ain’t worth this oppression.
All pleasures ain’t worth one...”
– Rubaiyat 12, Hafiz
“If God
Invited you to a party
And said,
‘Everyone
In the ballroom...”
– If God Invited You to a Party, Hafiz
“Don’t surrender your loneliness
So quickly.
Let it cut more deep.
Let...”
– Absolutely Clear, Hafiz
“This is the kind of Friend
You are -
Without making me realize
My...”
– Beautiful Hands, Hafiz
“look at love
how it tangles
with the one fallen in love
look at spirit
how...”
– Rumi
“How nicely You walk in our neighborhood,
Coming to us so beautifully.
O our...”
– Rumi
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever...”
Peter Pan
Maybe this recession is just what you need to remind you of how far you’ve strayed from the plan.
Don’t you remember? You were going to grow up and paint your house all crazy purple with flamingoes in the yard and your car parked on the roof and seven TVs all upside down and filled with glow in the dark fish.
- Dallas Clayton