Breathe.

"One life on this earth is all we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can." -Frederick Buechner

hope, not regret.

everything shapes us.

"that secret that you know, that you don't know how to tell"

The act of surrender is to let go. To let go of the instant, tangible comfort. To let go of safety, to let go of ritual, to let go of self construct, to let go of negative self talk. To let go and to stand open, empty, honest, and free.

Blood Bank. Bon Iver

breathe.

"a smooth sea never made a skillful mariner."
-unknown

"It was over the moment it happened"

let go.

i thought i saw a light shine...

Something Beautiful. Alexi Murdoch

title-less.

ignore the slideshow, just the music.

"Why should I gain from His reward?
I cannot give an answer
But this I know with all my heart
His wounds have paid my ransom"

just say yes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW1hv37imjw&ob=av2n

i am so attracted to the "all in". i want to believe like that.

psalm 139

Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

wise words, wise mama.

"Jai Ho." Victory, healing, and transformation are not one time events. When we experience a "win" in life; we finally say "no", we finally say "yes", we finally stop drinking, stop smoking, make it to the gym 6 days in a row, have daily prayer/meditation, take our vitamins, get to a yoga class, refrain from gossip, practice self control, refrain from road rage or from freaking out on someone t...hat "pisses you off", when we choose gentleness over harshness, when we finally forgive and let go of bitterness, we can be sure that our "wins" will be challenged again. There will be many victories on the road to health and transformation. Don't be discouraged when you face the same "temptation" over and over again. "I thought I already dealt with this, why am I facing this again? I guess I really wasn't healed, I guess I didn't have a break through like I thought." Hold on to your victory, your health, your spiritual and emotional healing even when it seems you are facing "it" once again. It's a journey, never give up, you will be victorious...."Jai Ho" means "may victory be yours." (Luke 4:23 NLT) "When the devil had finished tempting Jesus, he left him until the next opportunity came.". Even Jesus had to face "it" over and over again. Jai Ho..."

-sue berger

reading a good book.

"Because real risking in faith can occur only in those areas of life where we feel most impoverished and vulnerable, it never becomes something we are really comfortable with. For each layer of trust that builds up, another, most challenging risk is offered. True faith choices, therefore, always feel like risks they just go on, involving deeper and deeper levels of our being. Each choice remains difficult; what really becomes conditioned in this process is simply our willingness and readiness to take the risks of faith. They never stop feeling like risks."


"Obedience goes before our hearts and carries them where they would not normally go."



"You must, by the grace of God, do the thing you cannot do."