“In this world of news, I’ve found nothing new
I’ve found nothing pure
Maybe I’m just idealistic to assume that truth
Could be fact and form
That love could be a verb
Maybe I’m just a little misinformed

…

Let your love be strong, and I don’t care what goes down
Let your love be strong enough to weather through the thunder cloud.”

peterdwebb:

Don’t use “I’m just being honest” as an excuse to be mean to people. It’s still your responsibility to speak with grace and love. It’s your responsibility to speak words that bring healing and comfort. 

jesuslizarrd:

karlcat:

it is a Scientifically Proven Fact that once a group of people become friends, the tendency to make really foolish decisions skyrockets…. and from this chaos…. the Mom Friend™ rises, ready to keep everyone alive, armed with exasperation and common sense in spades

I’m the mom friend

I am occasionally the mom friend

I was talking to one of my students recently about the temptations of youthful spirituality, how when you are young you get addicted to the buzz of the worship high and then go searching for a more intense fix. You become a worship junkie. From your high school youth group on being close to God is being ON FIRE! Because God is AWESOME! That’s the temptation for youth, being trained to associate God with adrenaline and the Spirit with excitement.

What I told my student was this. What no one ever shares with you when you’re young is that Christianity is boring. No one tells you that. That Christianity, for the most part, is boring. No one tells you that Christianity is a 70 to 80 year grind in becoming more kind, more gentle, more giving, more joyful, more patient, more loving.

You learn that God isn’t in the rocking praise band or the amped up worship experience. What you learn after college is that Holy Ground is standing patiently in a line. You learn that Holy Ground is learning to listen well to your child, wife or co-worker. Holy Ground is being a reliable and unselfish friend or family member and being a good nurse when someone is sick. Holy Ground is awkward and unlikely friendships. Holy Ground is often just showing up.

Being more and more like Jesus is a million boring little things. No one ever tells you that when you’re young.

Richard Beck, “A Million Boring Little Things”
(via lukexvx)

I’ve been spending most of my nights here alone, and that doesn’t scare me like it did a year ago.

I have never had so little of an idea how to write a paper, not to mention TWO papers, as I do right now.

I got the last of Jon Foreman’s new EPs and all of a sudden became really interested in listening to all of them. I’ve listened to bits and pieces, but they hadn’t really struck me very hard. Really liking them so far this go around.

I hope Gungor is that way, too. Gungor’s first record in their new trilogy really hasn’t interested me all that much. I like a few songs a lot, but I’m not super feeling the really bare instrumentals nor the fact that it seems a lot more electronic instrument driven. I’m a sucker for Beautiful Things/Ghosts Upon The Earth era Güngor.