February 2012
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January 2012
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Prayer for Today
Dear Lord,
May Your calm defeat the raging seas that is my rushing blood, my torrent thoughts.
May Your solemnity infiltrate the twisting of want and bending of understanding. May Your strength carve out a place for me to rest–Your presence for me to boast in. An effusion I long to reside in. And where You are there I will live since You are where I insist on being.
And that my sight is on...
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Doubt My Love
http://traceatthewell.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/doubt-my-love/
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housewarming. →
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December 2011
20 posts
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to my beloved
and randoms.
I will be moving. physically, nay, but this woman’s well will be re-located to a cleaner, less reblogged and fruitful grounded area.
come and join me as I walk into the new year sharpening my thoughts, catering closer to my steps I make and intentionally share what needs to be and withhold what should be.
stay tuned.
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With an atlas in my hand, I can hardly tell what is to be discovered. What has discovered me may be better and widely known, specifically among the population of my friends, family and simply neighbors in my neighborhood. A neighborhood that nests common folk, who gladly retreat from their homes to roam their greenish grasses. I’m thinking about the idea of greener grasses and if I am to...
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Birth of Christ
Charles Spurgeon on December 24, 1854:
Feast, Christians, feast; you have a right to feast. Go to the house of feasting to-morrow, celebrate your Saviour’s birth; do not be ashamed to be glad; you have a right to be happy. Solomon says, “Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head...
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A brief twenty-something's letter to Santa
Hey Nicholas,
I know there’s the whole two front thing is, but have you heard of the full dental plan and health insurance thing? That would be great.
In addition, I know I made a grave deal about wanting that boy from the park to come over to my house for some pb&J sandwiches and a round of tag when I was younger often, but somehow that is still on my wish-list today. But perhaps...
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A man’s steps are directed by the Lord. How then can anyone understand his own way?
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Music Mondays.
Been obsessing over these two for...
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Globes of Gold
I’m doing semi-alright with the flicks I’ve managed to indulge in but here is merely a reminder to self of what I still need to watch. Opinions? Additions? Desires to join? LMK, pretty please.
Carnage
Declaration of War
The Descendants
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Great Gatsby
In the Land Of Milk And Honey
Martha Marcy May...
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In the distance there are various conversations surrounding me. The content mediocre yet worth my blogging. One woman complains about her job, and her red blazer is burning my eyes (no the woman is not me because I have no job, nor a red blazer, though I can make eyes burn). The woman receiving the wretched news is a loyal friend wearing royal blue. She nods and sips, sips and nods and in that...
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“The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying...”
– Frederick Buechner (via seasonbyseason)
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Things I Have Considered This Past Month or Two,...
Comedy writing
Musician/cafe artist performer
Editorial assistant, still.
Single forever
Marriage tomorrow
Screenwriting
Junior college re-re-re-enroller/a college student for the thrice time.
All organic, non processed food diet.
Throwing out my childhood Beauty & the Beast blanket—I mean if I can find that darn, comfy and cozy..silly thing…
Piano classes, again.
...
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On the 10th day of Christmas
I pondered and weighed all the no’s and yes’ I’ve been given and think of the Maker who tells me such things.
When I count something as a loss, I simply put truth behind a Christmas tree instead of a savior’s birth. Don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas trees, the trimmings, jingles and ugly sweaters, but that’s just happy. I live to seek contentedness. Seek...
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From a warm cup of coffee to another, from untied shoes to another, from one hearty laugh to another, from a tangled head of hair to another, from dry and cracked hands to another, from sore limbs to another, from watery eyes to another, from bent corners of paper to another another, from a regret to another, from one broken record to another, from one mean word to another, from one nice word to...
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“May a deep sense of my ignorance, of the wonderful privilege and power of...”
– Lord, Teach Us to Pray by Andrew Murray
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Thought of the Day
The crucible of loss, uncertainty and/or brokenness (in all ways or even one) forges a crucial resilience that fuels a consistently fully engaged life. Adversity, introduces us to ourselves and there’s nothing that can make my eyes more delightfully sore than an image of a girl who willingly clasps onto an inherent fullness.
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1st
Last night/morning I woke up to gusts of winds. For a moment, I saw December through a lens of vanity for making such a blustery deal for debuting itself for the first time this year and in such a vaguely terrifying manner. But like the many people I know (or who are on my feed(s)) the start of something new surpasses Troy Bolton and is a popular life motto we await about 28-30 days long to...
November 2011
16 posts
metric-electric asked: I like your blog - it's a refreshing change from the mundane and monotonous material that tends to crowd my dashboard.
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Wrapping up November
I must:
Edit and finalize my first official music guide piece for 2012.
Finish this almost watered-down iced americano before me, stat.
Meditate on whatever I think I need more of and then give it to God.
Make 31 boxes out of patterned paper for the Advent season.
Trim my bangs. Always.
Update my Amazon contact information with new a #, credit card and wish list.
Write in my journal...
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Solo, sometimes a no-no.
WE NEED PEOPLE.
This is a truth I’m catapulting primarily to myself. I used to boast in my alone time, my solo-ness, my singleness, but when it comes down to it, my moments of utter joy have involved others. And I say this all to give recognition to that, to them. Thankfulness hardly covers it.
I accept this acknowledgement humbly by the simple reflection of our call to love others....
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Thankful
I’m thankful for the rarity but reality of an 8 hour deep sleep. I’m thankful for the sound of the train in the middle of the night or when I’m in my backyard reading—and reading itself, for it uncovers longing, familiarity and the unknown. I admit though, the sound of the train competes with my mother’s voice and for that I am also thankful for.
I’m thankful...
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“That which is already has been, that which is to be already has been and God...”
– Ecclesiastes 3:15
Thankful reflections.
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WatchLeslie Feist with How Come You Never Go There.
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Teddy Roosevelt
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause;
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a subject matter that has been treading my mind.
No matter how much we might wish to change our own nature, any attempt that we make to change the harvest of sin will fail. All attempts at self-improvement, even if successful, will result in just that and no more: an improved self.
God offers us not an improved self, but a new self: alive to God, alive to righteousness.
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October 2011
15 posts
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Truths unraveled via United Kingdom dwelling
•One can easily fall in love numerous times in a day due to 1. The seemingly universal agreement among men to wear (for the most part) tailored suit pants when on the way to work, fitted coats, come-hither scarves and a fresh-like scent. 2. There seems to be only men groups at breweries and pubs we frequent and 3. Their accent is like a hymn during a dark age.
•I’ve had only the best beer...
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“We are often in places where we do not look for life. When we bury one whom we...”
– Daily Readings. Day 5 titled: Meet Life
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Today's 5 Favorite Things
Taking the time to make breakfast.
Prayer in the morning, like before the birds chirp.
Conversation with new though familiar friends.
Efficiently buying all things travel-sized and not breaking da bank.
Psalm 16.
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“There is no peace like the peace of those whose mind are possessed with full...”
– Packer
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“The line has fallen for me in pleasant places indeed.”
– PSALM 16
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Things on my mind as of late
Why my hair looks great the second day after washing it.
Is everything actually bigger in Texas?
Baby names with a dash of har har.
Jamie Oliver (or famous chefs with restaurants in the UK that I will eat at and pay with my dish-washing abilities).
How so many people do not know how to cough and sneeze appropriately in public.
Clothing, ensembles, fall/winter wear.
Feist. Feist....
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Things about me that sound pretentious
I drink coffee black
I think choosing sparkling water is pretentious
I try to only fly Virgin Airlines
I’ve never fell in a mutual deep like
I just wrote another song
My mom is famous
Here’s my portfolio/business card
I’m all about character analysis
I will not pay on a first date
I think every man should own a tailored suit
CNN is my homepage
I eat brown...