This has happened before. I’ve always been stronger without a boyfriend, commanded more presence in the room, owned a voice that more people listened to. I’m confident without a man.
What is it about being with someone… that takes your eye off your goals? Why does it change the way I behave…
I know. It’s strange for me to repost this, but she really is such an amazing writer. =)
More than just skipping stones
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Window Booth.
I really like this guy’s art
God really does reside on the testimony of His people. How honest. How bold and vulnerable. How powerful!
Justice League of America Dollar Bills by Aslan Malik
Artist: Behance / Website / Blog (via: geeksngamers)
(via linettechang)
Whatever a man is when he is single, he is more of when he is married. Unless Christ is there to make a difference… No woman draws a man to God - the Holy Spirit does that.
Even love must be disciplined, or we will love what will kill us.
“There is a great difference between successfulness and fruitfulness. Success comes from strength, control, and respectability. A successful person has the energy to create something, to keep control over its development, and to make it available in large quantities. Success brings many rewards and often fame. Fruits, however, come from weakness and vulnerability. And fruits are unique. A child is the fruit conceived in vulnerability, community is the fruit born through shared brokenness, and intimacy is the fruit that grows through touching one another’s wounds. Let’s remind one another that what brings us true joy is not successfulness but fruitfulness.”
– Henri Nouwen from “Fruits That Grow In Vulnerability
(Source: nicolechoe)
Who can take away suffering without entering it? The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there. (So freaking powerful)
But here we must be aware of the great temptation that will face the Christian minister of the future. Everywhere, Christian leaders, men and women alike, have become increasingly aware of the need for more specific training and formation. This need is realistic, and the desire for more professionalism in the ministry is understandable. But the danger is that instead of becoming free to let the spirit grow, the future minister may entangle himself in the complications of his own assumed competence and use his specialism as an excuse to avoid the much more difficult task of being compassionate… More training and structure are just as necessary as more bread for the hungry. But just as bread given without love can bring war instead of peace, professionalism without compassion will turn forgiveness into a gimmick, and the kingdom to come into a blindfold.
