February 2012
30 posts
all I wanna do is drive up north. in the early morning. all alone. and sit in a cafe that I don’t know. and read and write and drink coffee and eat scones. and stay there through the day. and take pictures of the trees. lying in a park somewhere. until sunset. when I will return after a day of rest. that’s really all I need. a day of rest and solitude.
I do too much.
There, I admitted it.
I said it.
It’s true.
I do too much.
I am very angsty at this moment.
And there’s nothing I can do about it.
Watcha wedding video our lovely friend Kristine Morgan (who is way too talented, seriously) made for us :) we laughed and teared up and cried out in joy when we saw it.
learning
prior to today, I had not heard a definition of forgiveness that I thought suitable. All definitions required me to explicitly or implicitly say that the things people had done to hurt me were ok. I was led to believe that I needed to let them know that it was ok to hurt me, when it wasn’t. Or, I was told that I simply had to forget it ever happened, which didn’t feel wise. To...
we watch too much big bang theory.
Robert: I'm mad at you, by the way.
Kelsey: Really, why?
Robert: You don't respect me as a sci-fi wizard.
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how apropros
As much of my college career has gone, I procrastinated applying for graduation. alas, here I am, two days before the deadline, and now I’ve decided that it’s time to sort it all out.
but fear not, I work well under pressure. After all, I had to in order to make it this far.
I don’t want my hair, makeup, clothes, or interests to define my femininity. I’d rather they be an expression of that when I choose. It allows me the freedom to blow stuff up and play in the mud and wear fake mustaches whenever I please because guess what? I can be a woman, and still be bad ass.
part of me wishes that I’d gone to college in the Pacific North West. Of course, my life would be dramatically different, which isn’t what I’m going for. I’d just have all those hipster photos of me and my friends in beanies in the scenic outdoors or cooking or whatever it is people do on cloudy days. Instead, I have desert photos. welp.
I have far more respect for those who don’t demand or force others’ respect for them. The people who humbly act as if they want to, or desire to, earn the respect of others earn it far more swiftly and easily than those who shove it down the throats of those they come into contact with. It’s a pride issue. If you feel entitled to the respect and and obedience of people around you...
my thursday night in
my night is not going to be as I had planned, but I am determined to make the most of it. Originally, I thought I would go to a meeting with roughly two hundred people and lots of noise and music and such. But, now, I am having a night in to myself. Perhaps it’s God’s way of tenderly shoving me into productivity and soul care. So, my thursday night will consist of:
Cleaning, because...
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of...”
– Jane Austen (via thatkindofwoman)
January 2012
30 posts
it started and will end with a promise
I think this is awesome.
So, back in the day Adam and Eve were foolish. And then Cain killed Able, and the world seemed overwhelmed with sinful nature. That doesn’t even really to begin to sum up everything that happened, but I digress. So, then here comes along Abram (to become Abraham), and God says that He wants to make a great nation out of this guys’ descendents. More than that,...
“I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.”
– J.D. Salinger (via thatkindofwoman)
“So glide away on soapy heels and promise not to promise anymore.”
– Ingrid Michaelson
“By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via thatkindofwoman)
“The reason that marriage is so painful and yet wonderful is because it is a...”
– Timothy and Kathy Keller
“No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13.
Isn’t it nuts that even in our sin, our turning away from God, He’s so loving and merciful that He promises a way out?
Not only did...
being married is the best.
somewhat disconnected? no, set apart
I flip through photos of the first few years of college, and wonder how on Earth I managed it all.
One of the things that i wrestle most with, not only as a Christian, but as a woman that is married, a senior in college, and preparing for her career away from Arizona is this: where do I fit in? Where do I belong?
Because the fact of the matter is, my story, my life, is at a different place than...
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I need to be somewhere with really, really big trees for a change. I’m pretty over all these cacti.
