May 2013
2 posts
Peace I cannot hear Your peace today. The storms are madly raging. The swell and burst of fear and pain have drowned my ears for You.
But I will wait and wait to hear, Your quiet, gentle whisper. My anxious heart awaits for You and I will hear again: again the sounds of stillness near and comfort from within; again Your Voice, and warm embrace, that leaves me rested, whole, at...
April 2013
3 posts
{ Every summer the lilies rise
and open their white hands until they almost
cover the black waters of the pond. And I give
thanks but it does not seem like adequate thanks,
it doesn’t seem
festive enough or constant enough, nor does the
name of the Lord or the words of thanksgiving come
into it often enough. Everywhere I go I am
treated like royalty, which I am not. I thirst
and am...
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The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology offers the M.A. in Counseling Psychology degree for students seeking graduate education in the area of counseling. As a learning community informed by incarnational theology, we believe that our Triune God is continually made known through relationship. As persons created in the image of God we seek to honor the other as sacred...
March 2013
2 posts
Letter To ________
You have broken my heart.
Just as well. Now
I am learning to rise
above all that, learning
the thin life, waking up
simply to praise
everything in this world that is
strong & beautiful
always - the trees, the rocks,
the fields, the news
from heaven, the laughter
that comes back
all the same. Just as well. Time
to read books, rake the lawn
in peace, sweep the floor, scour
...
February 2013
5 posts
2 tags
Listen
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
January 2013
2 posts
Rachel Held Evans: The Scandal of the Evangelical... →
lukexvx:
“It’s right for God to slaughter women and children anytime he pleases. God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.”
– John Piper
“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
– Thomas Paine
It’s strange to think that doubt has been a part of my life for more than ten years now.
I remember when it first showed up—a dark grotesque...
“When it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. ...”
– Martin Luther
December 2012
7 posts
1 tag
Today I graduate college.
God cannot be kept out. →
“If the incarnation teaches us anything, it’s that God can be found everywhere: in a cattle trough, on a throne, among the poor, with the sick, on a donkey, in a fishing boat, with the junkie, with the prostitute, with the hypocrite, with the forgotten, in places of power, in places of oppression, in poverty, in wealth, where God’s name is known, where it is unknown, with our friends, with...
Because women are weak. →
WHAT IS THIS?! WHY IS OUR CULTURE SO FIXATED ON RELATIONSHIPS? Why is buying a new pair of shoes or getting a pedicure the best way to mourn my former relationship? Why when one relationship ends should I immediately start daydreaming about the next? WHY should I sit and lust over Ryan Gosling because I miss my ex-boyfriend? This is so sick and makes me never want to get on the internet....
“When you let your wounded self express itself in the form of apologies,...”
– Henri Nouwen, “The Inner Voice of Love”
November 2012
4 posts
October 2012
4 posts
circles
I walked a long time
struggling, seeking,
always alone.
Each time around
the same circle,
sometimes faster,
sometimes slower.
I fell inside.
The circle got smaller
until there was
no place
left to go.
And I kept on walking.
Nowhere.
From nowhere
You came.
I walk a long time now
struggling, seeking
always with You.
Now it’s Your circle,
and it goes everywhere.
When I fall,
I fall into...
“Jesus never mentioned homosexuality once. How has it become such an issue?...”
– Aaron Weiss of mewithoutYou
“Nothing can keep me apart from the Love that He has for me deep in my heart. Not death and not life; not cruel accusation. Nothing at all, not in all of creation.
This Love is not mine to abolish or seize. It is of the Spirit. It is life and peace. The pains that life brings will continue to torment. But in Him we hope, yes, we wait and are patient.
Sometimes it still seems that the...
“the glory of God is a human being fully alive.”
- Irenaeus
September 2012
4 posts
“…die and become the quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. The speechless full moon comes out now.” | Rumi
August 2012
3 posts
“I have called you by name, from the very beginning. You are mine & I am yours. You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests. I have molded you in the depths of the earth & knitted you together in your mother’s womb. I have carved you in the palms of my hands & hidden you in the shadow of my embrace. I look at you with infinite tenderness & care for you with a care more intimate than...
July 2012
2 posts
“Nothing makes you happy except for the love of God and the light of God that...”
– Aaron Weiss
June 2012
5 posts
2 tags
Open Thou mine eyes and I shall see, Incline my...
YHWH reminders :: b e a u t i f u l
19 “What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside? 20 Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings? 21 Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!
22 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail, 23 which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of...
May 2012
3 posts
Cling to the Promise
God is faithful to God’s promises.
Before you die, you will find the acceptance and the love you crave. It will not come in the way you expect. It will not follow your needs and wishes. But it will fill your heart and satisfy your deepest desire.
There is nothing to hold on to but this promise.
Everything else has been taken away from you
Cling to that naked promise in faith.
Your faith...
“Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said,
‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of l i v i n g w a t e r.’”
{john 7:38}
April 2012
9 posts
1 timothy 1:16
“…But I have received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.”
A reason why Bible school isn't the worst place in... →
ampersandrearasmussen:
The literal translation of the Aramaic Lord’s Prayer actually reads:
“Soften the ground of our being and carve out a space within us where your presence can abide. Fill us with your creativity so that we may be empowered to bear the fruit of your mission. Let each of our actions bear fruit in accordance with your desire. Endow us with the wisdom to produce and share what...
