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I say a lot of things. I write a lot of things. I like to share a lot of things with you. i was born to encourage. do you need that?
come rain or come shine
i don’t believe in true love. but i do believe in love. this is not scientific. i don’t have any degrees in medicine or biology or anything that tells you how a brain actually functions. but i do know all of this to be true: a year ago today, my brain caught up with my heart. ok, that sounds slightly ridiculous, because in truth the heart is a muscle, and it doesn’t have feelings, other than feeling blood pump through it. and technically, what i mean is the logical part of my brain caught up with the emotional part of my brain,...
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ever have a song that finally makes sense once you live the lyrics? after this season, the song “clarity” by jimmy eat world does just that. nearly 12 years later, clarity holds the words i thought and held. maybe it doesn’t “make sense” so much as it means more. infinitely more. i’ll take your words as if you were talking to me so say what i know you’ll say and say it through your teeth now in the deep and down your heart moves now in the deep and down i don’t know how, but i know i...
read morea purpose worth being broken for
2011. it’s the obligatory end of year post. and i have much to reflect on. this is going to come in two parts. it’s been quite a year. at the end of 2010, i was able to look back at a year of changing. and it was rough but so beneficial. never did i imagine that 2011 would be even tougher. this year i loved fiercely and intentionally. and it was the hardest thing my heart has ever gone through. it’s easy to love fiercely when you’re receiving love. but when you’re doing it knowing that you’ll never...
read moreit is steep/it is stone
(click) what better way to kick off my new blog than a post about what i’ve learned today? today i learned some really important things. and i’d love to share them with you 1. i learned for the first time what it feels like to be covered in prayer. i mean, i can literally feel the prayers people are praying for me. His peace is abounding. 2. i have a community and i never saw it coming. it doesn’t look like i expected it to look. my community spans the continent and age. and i love them so, so much. 3. i have the...
read morethe future is brighter than any flashback
yesterday i was recalling how we spent new years eve last year. it was a weird night. it made me afraid that the entire year would be weird. turns out, it was. but in the best way possible. it all happened so, so fast. what did 2010 look like for this girl? i spent (nearly) the entire year with my best friend in the whole world. and we took lots of photos together. which i am so very, very thankful for. with my whole heart. i took photos of beautiful ladies dressed as hollywood starlets. i started with my sister during the great...
read moreif you want His kingdom
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read morecontagious and spreading quick
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read moreHis law is Love
div style=”text-align: center;”span style=”font-family:verdana;”my house./spanbr /span style=”font-family:verdana;”a car with heat./spanbr /span style=”font-family:verdana;”a full-time job./span span style=”font-family:verdana;”br /the ability to buy groceries.br //span span style=”font-family:verdana;”and a jacket./span span style=”font-family:verdana;”br /friends amp; family who love the heck out of me./spanbr /span style=”font-family:verdana;”the...
read moreour ears were trained
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read morewe long for concrete things
span style=”font-family: verdana;”the moment your whole life changed./spanbr /br /span style=”font-family: verdana;”do you have one of those? maybe you can’t think of one moment. maybe it was a period in your life. now, i’m not talking about the moment you accepted the Lord, clearly that moment /spanspan style=”font-style: italic; font-family: verdana;”actually/span span style=”font-family: verdana;”saved your life./spanbr /br /span style=”font-family: verdana;”i’m...
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