I love the use of language to describe the best and most beautiful truth of all:
“Where I found Truth, there I found my God, the Truth itself, which since I learned, I have not forgotten…. Too late I loved You, O Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new! too late I loved You! And behold, You [...]
Filed under: Christianity on October 31st, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I loved this movie. Before tonight, I had been reading everywhere lots of elaborate adjectives to describe it, like beautiful, intelligent, vivid, low-key, subtle, complex, symbolic, sensitive, intimate, and powerful. Wow, that’s a lot for a movie to live up to. But I truly think it lived up to all of those things. I wish that there [...]
Filed under: Culture, Marriage/Family on October 30th, 2007 | No Comments »
Wow! I’m almost tempted to leave my de-lurk post up for weeks, just because it’s been so much fun to hear from you. It’s so encouraging to know that people are reading, and hearing that directly from my readers is better than reading my stats. Thanks for taking the time to comment; I know many of [...]
Filed under: Personal Reflection on October 30th, 2007 | No Comments »
(I got this idea and title from Crystal at Biblical Womanhood.)
Tomorrow is my 21st birthday. No, I am not going to celebrate in the traditional way (my school doesn’t allow it, and I wouldn’t really want to anyway). But I am excited to see what my friends have planned; they’re not telling me anything.
I would [...]
Filed under: Miscellaneous on October 26th, 2007 | 20 Comments »
When I blogged on Xanga, I used to write more frequently and on more random topics, often just ramblings about my life. I’m glad in one way that I’ve moved on to more “serious” blogging, because I think it’s a better way to invest my time and effort, but sometimes I miss the impulsive, easy [...]
Filed under: My Life on October 24th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
My Daily Light for this morning. It was so perfect. And so needed. Pray for me, if you think of it. I have been so overwhelmed this semester with busyness and difficult classes and failing a test and continuing headaches and insomnia and anxiety. I had to skip both of my classes this morning because of a [...]
Filed under: My Life, Scripture on October 22nd, 2007 | 3 Comments »
(You can read part 1 here and part 2 here.)
this feels like a no caps post. so that’s what it’s going to be…
it’s… well… interesting, to say the least, that i have been writing about authenticity. because yesterday i had the chance to be very “authentic” with a few people. and it was difficult. i [...]
Filed under: Christianity on October 19th, 2007 | No Comments »
Welcome back to our discussion on authenticity! You can read part 1 here.
On Saturday, I wrote about the first problem I see with the way being authentic and real is misused in the church today: inappropriate emotional intimacy and lack of boundaries. And the second way is more subtle and something that I have been [...]
Filed under: Christianity on October 16th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Welcome to a hopefully more regular version of Various and Sundry! In this series, I want to post links to a few gems I’ve found around the Web lately. I started this in June and so far have posted it about every two months. But my goal is to make it a weekly occurrence [...]
Filed under: Blogging on October 15th, 2007 | No Comments »
Many times, I stay away from discussions about authenticity and “being real” in Christianity. It’s not because I don’t think that being authentic is important. It’s because I think it’s misused at times, specifically in two ways. I want to discuss one of those misuses today. In part 2 on Tuesday, I’ll talk about the second misuse. And [...]
Filed under: Christianity on October 13th, 2007 | 7 Comments »
