May 2013
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“If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.”
– C.S Lewis
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“The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little...”
– A.W. Tozer
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April 2013
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there are so many moments that feel dull and heavy and numb. so many moments of clinging to hope and choosing joy even when that’s the farthest thing from what I feel.
and then there are those moments when the tears seem like they won’t stop flowing. where every ounce of heaviness and being overwhelmed fades. tonight was that. standing in the back of a warehouse space while the music played and...
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We want answers don’t we? We want explanations. We want to know why we suffer like we do. And there are times when the only honest, healthy, human thing to do is to shout your question and shake your fist in rage at the heavens and demand an explanation.
But true wisdom - the kind we find here with Job. The kind that endures. The kind that sustains a person through suffering. That kind of wisdom...
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I listen to a lot of podcasts. My subscription links on iTunes are constantly full of episodes ranging in topic from news, international affairs and politics to TED talks, sports, and sermons. My favourite of my regular podcasts though, are those from the Village Church. I rarely share these links, but this is one of those rare exceptions.
What I should have learned from more than a year of...
“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time...”
– ― Elizabeth Gilbert
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love this. //
Based on, and inspired by Psalm 126 in The Message
It seemed like a dream, too good to be true, when GOD returned Zion’s exiles. They laughed, they sang, They couldn’t believe their good fortune. They were the talk of the nations: “GOD was wonderful to them, He worked amazing miracles on their behalf and brought them home.”
It seemed like a dream, too good to be...
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three weeks to go.
three weeks until this semester is over and my first year of grad school comes to a close.
three weeks until sweet, sweet summer.
this is the semester where I’ve cried over papers more than I ever have before in my life. the semester where I’ve wanted to walk away so many times, but always felt Jesus drawing me back to this same place.
this is the semester where...
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Prayer can be motion and stillness and energy - all at the same time. It begins with stopping in our tracks, or with our back against the wall, or when we are going under the waves, or when we are just so sick and tired of being psychically sick and tired that we surrender, or at least we finally stop running away and at long last walk or lurch or crawl toward something. Or maybe, miraculously, we...
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“This is the thing I believe about the Kingdom of God: it’s for all of us. It’s for the powerful and weak, it’s for men and for women, it’s for the outliers and the insiders. It’s for all of us. And so there is no neat and safe and tidy box: instead there is the wild and untamed and glorious riches of Christ Jesus, there is Deborah and David, there is Junia and Paul, there is Martha and...
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March 2013
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On waiting and wilderness and living fully in...
I over-think. I over-analyze. I freak out about lack of plans and feel overwhelmed by the lack of concrete direction. I want to give up and yet I want to never slow down. I’m a planner and I need vision or I feel a bit lost. Some call it goal-oriented. Some call it futuristic. Some call it crazy. Myer’s Briggs calls it (or my specific portion of it) INFJ. And I call it the familiar but...
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I’ve never known someone who loved hockey like my Dad. It was one of our special things - a shared language of sport (perhaps crazy) between father and daughter. Some of my favourite memories are yelling at the TV together, the evenings in high school where I’d be half watching and half-attempting to get homework done, and spending Saturday nights watching Hockey Night in Canada, not...
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