January 2010
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Jan 31st
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“You see things as they are and ask, ‘Why?’ I dream things as they never were and...”
– George Bernard Shaw
Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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“Salvation is free, … but discipleship will cost you your life.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer (via toddrhoades)
Jan 29th
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meant to be
“He predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.” -Ephesians 1:5-6 I never really ‘got’ the concept of predestination untill last week at cell group, when the proverbial lightbulb was switched on. Researching this verse with one of...
Jan 28th
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Jan 26th
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what joy!
Great ideas are only that if the blessing of the Lord isn’t upon them. Yesterday afternoon Clare and I backed cup cakes with eight of the younger girls that come to the youth group at church. It was the first event, but one that we hope to repeat on a monthly basis. The initial idea was to have a different activity each month, but the red and green cup cakes (the joys of food colouring!)...
Jan 24th
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“Disciples are not people who never doubt. They doubt and worship, doubt and...”
– John Ortberg
Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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books to the ceiling
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them. -Arnold Lobel
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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“Earth’s crammed with Heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But...”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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unconventional vs controversial
                    Last night I finished reading Maus by Art Spiegelman. I was first introduced to this novel and it’s genre, the comic strip novel, during my Jewish American Literature class at university almost four years ago. “Maus memoralises Spiegelman’s father’s experience of the Holocaust - it follows his story, frame by frame, from youth and marriage in pre-war...
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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The lesson of Massachusetts? Anger
adamisacson: Much of the disaffection in Massachusetts came from self-described independents. That’s significant because independents are concentrated in middle-class suburbs where physical and economic security are overriding preoccupations. Today, those anxieties are both real and justified, though not as critiques of Obama’s first year. The truth of the matter is that, if you adjust for...
Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Fear of the poor is hampering Haiti rescue
adamisacson: [T]he Haitian people seem to scare aid workers more than Somali warlords, Darfuri Janjawid or Afghan Taleban. Frightened Dutch aid workers abandoned a mission without reaching the collapsed building where people were trapped, and frightened doctors have left their patients unattended. The experience of CNN’s medical reporter, Dr Sanjay Gupta, is telling. In a makeshift clinic he...
Jan 20th
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“It’s unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I like human...”
– Emma Thompson (via quote-book)
Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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quote of the week
My friend Frans brought me the quote of the week: “that lady from sound of music didn’t know what she was talking about, the beginning is a terrible place to start”. You’ve just got to love the Skype chat function. So. To all those of you out there that don’t know where to start, ask yourselves this: “do you know where you want to finish?” (quote of the...
Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
– Isaac Newton (via johannal) (via quote-book)
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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i carry your heart with me
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows...
Jan 17th
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just what I needed
It never ceases to amaze me how sometimes, seemingly out of the blue, I’m taken care of in a way that I didn’t even realise that I needed. It happened again this morning. I guess it’s being in a permanent state of transition that gets to be a bit wearing at times. Adjusting to new things takes energy, even if it isn’t very noticable most of the time. This morning, at...
Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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loving the Saturday
You’ve just got to love Saturdays. I’m certainly loving mine at the moment!Suggested ingredients for a perfect Saturday: a long lie in, English breakfast (yes, sausage and baked beans in the morning!) baking and some writing to friends that have been neglected for too long. Other ingredients to be added as time goes on. Perhaps some reading, a board game and/or a movie? This perfect...
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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“A person who has hope lives differently.”
– Pope Benedict XVI
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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“It’s much easier to act like a Christian than to react like one. Anyone can put...”
– Mark Batterson from his new book “Primal” (via Pete Wilson) (via toddrhoades)
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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“Since the earthquake on Tuesday, I’ve found myself thinking about Haiti in the...”
–  Jon Lee Anderson in the New Yorker. (via adamisacson)
Jan 14th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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“True service builds community. It quietly and unpretentiously goes about caring...”
– Richard Foster
Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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“Sometimes we don’t need another chance to express how we feel or to ask...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jan 9th
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Jan 8th
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the land of the great
adamisacson: In the last few months, as I’ve roamed the world from San Francisco to Copenhagen to Beijing to Dubai, I’ve taken to keeping a double- entry list of what works and what doesn’t, country by country. Unfortunately, it’s become largely a list of what works elsewhere but doesn’t work here. In places such as China, South Korea, Sweden, Holland, Switzerland and (until recently) the...
Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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Tozer on the Holy Spirit
ultraviolete: ericmcclerren: as electric power flows only through a conductor, so the Spirit flows through truth and must find some measure of truth in the mind before He can illuminate the heart. Theological knowledge is the medium through which the Spirit flows into the human heart. It is possible to have some truth in the mind without having the Spirit in the heart, but it is never possible...
Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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“I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling...”
– Henri Nouwen
Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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“God is not a means to your dream. Yes, your God-ordained dreams will never...”
– Mark Batterson (via toddrhoades)
Jan 6th