I am a Photographer, Writer, Singer, Explorer, Artist, Poet, and Counselor! Most of all, I am a believer, a single-mother, and a good friend! I have a big heart and an inquisitive mind. I am an adventurer! I love to discover! I love food, art, and music from all cultures. I am open-minded and have the humility to learn from anyone. Wisdom and truth can come from many places...but I still believe there is only one Truth! There is so much I want to learn and experience, and I would be honored if you share your true self, life, interests, music, etc. with me. I respect and value the opinions and voice of others, even if they differ from mine; so, please return the favor. I used to be an avid Martial Artist, but have gotten away from it, among many other things I enjoy. It would be great to talk about these things and so much more.
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "Im ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I dont accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic~on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg~or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. CS Lewis, Mere Christianity ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire, Let me not sink to be a clod, Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God. --Amy Carmichael ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________A nd thus I clothe my naked villiany with old odd ends, stol'n forth of Holy writ; and seem a saint. when most I play the devil. --Shakespear ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________B e great in act, as you have been in thought. --Shakespear ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________F ew people are capable of expressing with equanamity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. --Einstein ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________M y religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior Spirit who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to percieve with our frail and feeble minds. --Einstein ____________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________Th e most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. --Einstein ____________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________Me n occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. --Churchill ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. ~CS Lewis"______________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ _It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievment, and who at worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat. ~Teddy Roosevelt ____________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________Th e spiritual life cannot be made suburban. It is always frontier, and we who live it must accept and even rejoice that it remains untamed. ~Howard Macy________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight. ~Bruce Cockburn____________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. ~Kahlil Gibran ____________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself But if your love and must needs have desires, Let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook That sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart And give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer For the beloved in your heart And a song of praise upon your lips. ~ by Gibran Kahlil Gibran ~___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________The deepest desire of our hearts is for union with God. God created us for union with Himself: This is the original purpose of our lives. ~Brennan Manning ____________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________Enemy occupied territory--that is what this world is. C. S. Lewis ____________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." ~C.S. Lewis ____________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________"W hen you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all." ~C. S. Lewis ____________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________"As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'" ~C. S. Lewis ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your own peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destroy you while you are facing the other way. ~Frederick Buechner ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________As part of Christ's army, you march in the ranks of gallant spirits. Every one of your fellow soldiers is the child of the King. Some, like you, are in the midst of battle, besieged on every side by affliction and temptation. Others, after many assaults, repulses, and rallyings of their faith, are already standing upon the wall of heaven as conquerers. Fromthere they look down and urge you, their comrads on earth, to march up the hill after them. This is their cry. "Fight to the death and the City is your own, as now it is ours!" ~William Gurnall ____________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. --Thoreau ____________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________Th e most important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has it's own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity; of life; of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. --Einstein
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