December 2010
35 posts
“And there will come a time, you’ll see, with no more tears.
And love will...”
– mumford and sons
—perfect love casts out fear
John 14
Beautiful promises and truth (plus a bit of franglais.)
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Croyez en Dieu; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. Vous savez où je vais, et...
“I end not far from my going forth
By picking the faded blue
Of the last...”
– a late walk, R Frost
(Aster’s symbolize patience and elegance)
they are to be happy in: where can we live but...
Some days may contain noticeable changes. Some may seem (at first) horrible mistakes. Most (sadly) pass unrecognized. Life is uncertain, but beautiful, and I’m sure art must come from seeing the potential in a mistake and slowly making it right, stroke by stroke. You can’t be afraid of making a mess. Discovery comes accidentally.
Clyde Kilby, American author and English professor,...
“Once I’m ready, made up, dressed… I’m in costume, it can be a yoke, on the...”
– from Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet
early to rise
But your dead will live, LORD; their bodies will rise—let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joy—your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead. Isaiah 26:18-20
The Sovereign LORD has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed. Isaiah...
“But this is past, and why return
O’er such a past to broad and mourn?
Shake...”
– Emily Bronte, 1837 (via kristinmartin)
1908
Nothing like a Sunday morning snow and a power outage to transport you back to the early 1900’s.
Stephanie brings me pancakes in bed…Corinne plays the piano…Jody reads by the fire…parents venture out to find food…I lite some candles, put on my factory girl boots and new jean dress…
...
“O Lord, be gracious to us: we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our...”
– Isaiah 33:2,5,6
(it’s beautiful and true)
“THERE’S a patch of old snow in a corner
That I should have guessed
Was a...”
– robert frost
“Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the...”
– from East Coker, TS Eliot
(i’m home for an evening under lamplight.)
betty smith, a tree grows in brooklyn
“In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won’t get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.”
“Growing up spoiled a lot of things.”
“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be...
“And everything in time and under heaven
Finally falls asleep
Wrapped in...”
– poetic nichole nordeman
Liv
Our best friend fell in love……
And she’s getting married!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Funny thing is, just last night we had a huge sleepover at Allison’s house and made balloon animals?
Growing up is unlike anything I’ve ever done. But it’s so so happy.
truth
You are more, You are more, than my words will ever say
You are Lord, You are Lord, all creation will proclaim
You are here, you are here, in Your presence I’m made whole
You are God. You are God, of all else I’m letting go!
It’s a good time to take me away
Give me a new name
Break my heart for another place
Love, Grace
“steph: you’re almost done!!
me: i feel like i’m crawling across the...”
– the best and the funniest exam advice from my wise older sister
rain today
words can be remembered. then memorized. perfectly preserved. you might forget a tune or a face or what actually happened. but words have a way of hanging on.
that’s why i’m fond of words. and why words can be dangerous little things. and why you should choose your words wisely.
“I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you…”
of all the...
“Rain has drops
Sun has shine
Moon has beams
That make you mine
Rivers have...”
– And I have you. Nikki Giovanni.
(thanks, steph)
wednesday
I walk the same way home that I did freshman year. There’s an old man who sits in a golf cart, waiting to transfer students from here to there who probably get tired of using crutches all the time.
I ask him how he’s doing.
“Just fine!” (with a smile) is his answer.
Sometimes I wonder if one day when I trip and fall up the stars of Greenlaw, I’ll be hurt and...
because i want to learn all the languages of the...
Weise mir, HERR, deinen Weg, daß ich wandle in deiner Wahrheit; erhalte mein Herz bei dem einen, daß ich deinen Namen fürchte.
Enseigne-moi tes voies, ô Éternel! Je marcherai dans ta fidélité. Dispose mon coeur à la crainte de ton nom.
Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.
“That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his...”
– George MacDonald
love TRUTH
forget fire & paper
LAST WEEK I set my room on fire. I lit three tea lights directly under a picture on my mirror and went downstairs for a piece of chocolate. Our fire alarm is one of a kind. It’s a woman’s voice saying “fire. fire.” She’s so calm. She might as well say “relax. relax.” It would have the same effect. So when I heard her voice I came back upstairs to find half...
simply put
There’s a way the flowers shut
When they sense a dismal sky.
What harm could it cause?
They’re not sure, but will never try
To be just as beautiful
In a storm.