coram deo

I like puns, punctuation, and punctuality. “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek Him the greatest adventure; to find Him, the greatest human achievement.” psalm 92:2

[tblaberge]

I need love that I do not deserve, grace that I have not earned, and forgiveness that I have not sought. I need it and I need it and I need it till the end.

T.B. LaBerge // Go Now (via tblaberge)

[-supjchwa]

“Another often-asked question when I speak in public: ‘Do you have some good advice you might share with us?’ Yes, I do. It comes from my savvy mother-in-law, advice she gave me on my wedding day. ‘In every good marriage,’ she counseled, ‘it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.’ I have followed that advice assiduously, and not only at home through 56 years of a marital partnership nonpareil. I have employed it as well in every workplace, including the Supreme Court. When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.”

[-supjchwa]

It's Time to Reclaim the Idea of 'Fellowship'

“The conversations we have in fellowship carry with them the context of a larger story: All of the good we want to do in the world and all of the change that we can make happen matters because in fellowship things like justice, love, and empathy are implied. Meaning and community become intertwined and there is no reason to think of them separately.”

And a quote I heard at Redeemer last Sunday: 

“The Christian, however, must bear the burden of a brother. He must suffer and endure the brother. It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated. The burden of men was so heavy for God Himself that He had to endure the Cross. God verily bore the burden of men in the body of Jesus Christ. But He bore them as a mother carries her child, as a shepherd enfolds the lost lamb that has been found. God took men upon Himself and they weighted Him to the ground, but God remained with them and they with God. In bearing with men God maintained fellowship with them. It was the law of Christ that was fulfilled in the Cross. And Christians must share in this law.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

[tblaberge]

If we were intentional with others, in the way we engage them, then we would start to see real change. Instead, we hope that others would step forward first. That’s not going to happen, we have forgotten what it means to love others well. We have to be prepared to step outside what is safe to us, we have to be willing to go across personal borders so that we may show others that love takes the first step and then runs full sprint. We don’t get to sit when we are called to engage without hesitation, we don’t get to stay behind when the war is across the world. We must act first, or we will disappear in the void of our own doing.

T.B. LaBerge // Go Now (via tblaberge)

[sairceketli]

Visit Original Link

[thursdays-at-the-coffeeshop]

Songs like this are meant to be soundtracks for gentle sunrises +  hot cups of coffee with you. 

[chickabiddy]

Untitled (by Jacqueline Foss)

[positivedoodles]

[pdlcomics]

Not Much

[-supjchwa]

How the ‘Dining Dead’ Got Talking Again

Passionate conversation brought them together, but after seven years of marriage, they had nothing to say. What to do?

One night we went to dinner, just the two of us. And as we sat there quietly eating, a horrible memory came to mind. It wasn’t a memory of my own experience. It was a memory of my watching a scene in a movie.

In “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” Kate Winslet, who plays Clementine, and Jim Carrey, who plays her boyfriend, Joel, are eating silently in a restaurant when Joel notices that all of the couples around them aren’t talking.

“Are we like those bored couples you feel sorry for in restaurants?” Joel muses to himself. “Are we the dining dead?”

My husband and I sat there stone-faced, like two more of the dining dead.

[pdlcomics]

Challenge Yourself

[coffeeforthemoon]

[thecreativechristianap]

Love is not an affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C.S. Lewis (via tblaberge)

[wordsnquotes]

…To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (via wordsnquotes)

[pdlcomics]

Raccoon Trouble

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LOOK AT THIS ELEPHANT BOOPING A GIRAFFE

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HOW HAVEN’T I SEEN THIS YET

[craigtowens]

So why don’t I call on His name? Why do I run to this person or that person, when God is so near and will hear my faintest call? Why do I sit down to plot my own course and make my own plans? … My part is simply to obey His commands, not to direct His ways. I am His servant, not His advisor. I will call upon Him and He will deliver me.

Charles Spurgeon, commenting on Joel 2:32 (via craigtowens)

[tblaberge]

Go to Jesus, whatever it is that is on your heart, take it to the one who knows your heart. Let Him be the constant in this world of inconsistencies; let Christ be the rock that you build your life on, because He is the only foundation that will stand in the season of pain. He is all that we need, so return to Him, and be restored.

T.B. LaBerge // Go Now (via tblaberge)