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About Me

things i love:
music
coffee
people
hgtv
Jesus
reading
sleeping
cooking
chocolate
vintage
starbucks
npr
brushing my teeth
old books
generosity
dreadlocks
instruments
photography
architecture
children
fireworks
1940's
the great outdoors
world history
literature
words
laughing
independence
driving
loud music
creativity
parades
the book of isaiah
art
green tea frappucinos. with raspberry
traveling
learning
practical jokes
justice
pilates/yoga
putting things together
spontaneity
the nations
shoes
adoption
world awareness
things i hate:
snobbery
being cold
injustice
stupid drivers
bad copyediting
being used
horror
most 80's music & fashion
feeling insecure
human trafficking
haters
large aquatic creatures
judgemental mindsets
creatures with more than four legs
some good quotage...
"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." - Arundhati Roy
"So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?" - You've Got Mail
"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time." - Robin Williams
"Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage, and wisdom moves the world." - Ammon Hennacy
"We are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside... but one day, we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be tranformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch, you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Only one more thing bugged me, then I will shut up about it. War metaphor. The churches I attended would embrace war metaphor. They would talk about how we are in a battle, and I agreed with them, only they wouldn’t clarify that we were battling poverty and hate and injustice and pride and the powers of darkness. They left us thinking that our war was against liberals and homosexuals. Their teaching would have me believe I was the good person in the world and the liberals were the bad people in the world. Jesus taught that we are all bad and He is good and He wants to rescue us because there is a war going on and we are hostages in that war. The truth is we are supposed to love the hippies, the liberals, and even the Democrats, and that God wants us to think of them as more important than ourselves. Anything short of this is not true to the teachings of Jesus." - Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz
"I would very earnestly ask you to check your conception of Christ, the image of Him which as a Christian you hold in your mind, with the actual revealed Person who can be seen and studied in action in the pages of the Gospels. It may be of some value to hold in our minds a bundle of assorted ideals to influence and control our conduct. But surely we need to be very careful before we give that "bundle" the name of Jesus Christ the Son of God." - J. B. Phillips
"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies; succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway." - Mother Teresa
"I have always... at least, ever since I can remember... had a kind of longing for death.... The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing... to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from... my country, the place where I ought to have been born...." -C.S. Lewis, Til We Have Faces
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Meade
"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering. Because when it comes, you'll know you're dead." - Tennessee Williams
"Someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else." - Unknown
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Nietzsche Matthew 10:7-8
Luke 15:22-24
Psalm 97:1-6
the entire book of Isaiah

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Raoul Laporterie, Kevin Sites, Donald Miller, Akiane Kramarik, Benson Idahosa, Bishop WC Martin and the entire Possom Trot community, Greg Mortenson

My Blog

untitled as of yet

this is mine. thoughts, comments, suggestions would all be appreciated. :) suffocating truth and freedomthe lies we faithfully believe in"you are so aloneyou must be doing something wrong" filling the...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:15:00 GMT

glory & intimacy, and the end of life as we knew it

So we just got back from a Glory and Intimacy conference with Abiding Glory Ministries. Ryan Wyatt, Patricia King, Joshua Mills, Kimberly & Alberto Rivera. Does it get any better? My favorite four...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:02:00 GMT

the story

Pedro the Lion is loud in the speakers, and the city waits just outside our open windows. She sits and sings, legs crossed in the passenger seat, her pretty voice hiding in the volume. Music is a safe...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:05:00 GMT

interlude: laborers

"in light of the human emergency, in light of what's going on in the worldman, it would be nice if some of you talented Christians would dedicate yourself to trust in God, and watching Him take all th...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:19:00 GMT

if we were colorblind

"she'd trade the midnight blue in the morning skyshe'd give up every shade of green and every tree in sightshe'd kiss red goodbye and never shed a tearlet the gold in every sunset fade away from herec...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:21:00 GMT

Hilarious...

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Posted by on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:20:00 GMT

The Summer Of The Wildfire

"It seems to me that after someone sweeps across your life like a red-hot flame, peeling back the shutters that sat over your heart and your mind and setting free your sweetest dreams or your wor...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:47:00 GMT