Let's Start Living
May 2012
21 posts
August 1, 2012
I can do anything. I can go anywhere.
No job. No school. No apartment lease. No commitments.
The options are endless: so much of the world to see, so many people to meet/visit, so many things to learn, and unending Grace and Provision to experience.
My feet/steering wheel/heart will wander.
Every single person looking for a job should read this right now.
What You Hopefully Did Months Ago:Seriously, guys. Run, don’t walk, to this amazing series of charts.
These are genius. Humorous. And genius. Probably more interview help than I ever received from my university.
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“The Bible said the only weapon any of us really has is love. But it’s love like a sword without a handle and because of that, sometimes we’ll get cut when we pick it up. It’s supposed to be close contact, though. Love always is that way. I don’t think Bible verses were meant to be thrown like grenades at each other. They were meant for us to use to point each other toward love and grace and invite us into something much bigger.”
—Bob Goff, Love Does
every thought a Thought of You
MeWithoutYou
every song in praise of You
our darkest nights are days to You
the trees raise branches high
like arms in church to grateful sky,
every song in praise of You
no one here to believe but You
everyone else is bound to leave but You
when they swear their love is real,
they mean, i like the way you make me feel
there is no one here to believe but You
“Jesus never mentioned homosexuality once. How has it become such an issue? Strange. Strange how all the things that Jesus actually did talk about fail to become issues. I mean, you start talking about war, and conservative Christians say, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be political and protest the war.’ Or you talk about poverty and the causes of poverty. ‘Oh, that’s a political issue; Jesus wasn’t political.’ Why don’t these people deal with the issues that Jesus did? It shouldn’t surprise me. If you look at the Gospels, the most respected religious people were the furtherest from the spirit of what Jesus was saying. It’s just the same thing all over again. But I am surprised. I really do continually expect Christians to be the most willing to accept pacifism, peacemaking, or redistribution of wealth, and care for the poor, and rethinking our prison systems and all that. But we end up being the most belligerent and self-righteous and all the rest. Scary.”
—Aaron Weiss of mewithoutYou (via tylertorres)
“Adventure brings out the best and worst in people. We don’t always allow ourselves to get pushed to the edge, either physically or mentally. Adventure is different: the wild is unpredictable. However much we prepare, things sometimes go wrong, and it is then that the real adventures begin. We get squeezed. And we see what we are all really made of. My experience tells me that people are much stronger than they often give themselves credit for. It is why I say the wild can empower you. And that’s not something money can buy.”
—Bear Grylls (via tylertorres)
“Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?”
—C.S. Lewis (via allthingssoulful)
“Jesus modeled that we don’t need to talk about everything we’ve done. It’s like He’s saying, what if we were just to do awesome, incredible stuff together while we’re here on earth and the fact that only He knew would be enough? If we did that, we wouldn’t get confused about who was really making things happen. Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funneled into awesomeness.”
—Bob Goff, Love Does
