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Shauna Niequist by rocketrictic on Flickr.

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ATTENTION: this is the best praise song ever written, and the best recording of it, ever. The voices you hear in the background are from a sanctuary full of ex-cons and ex-gang members singing at then top of their lungs.

So Here I Am

If you were looking for accomplishment Then you know I wouldn’t stand a chance But you said you wanted failures, so here I am If you were looking for intelligence Then you know I wouldn’t stand a chance But you said you wanted fools, so here I am Thank you God for love I don’t deserve Thank you God for love I did not earn

If you were looking for good citizens Then you know I wouldn’t stand a chance But you said you wanted prisoners, so here I am If you were looking for faithful men Then you know I wouldn’t stand a chance But you said you wanted doubters, so here I am

Thank you God for love I don’t deserve Thank you God for love I did not earn

If you were looking for righteous men Then you know I wouldn’t stand a chance But you said you wanted sinners, so here I am

If you were looking for worthy men Then you know I wouldn’t stand a chance But you said you wanted me, so here I am

Thank you God for love I don’t deserve Thank you God for love I did not earn

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You are proof that God is an artist. He took you, and took your sin. He made you clean, washed white with blood. You became a canvas for Him to paint images of grace and glory upon. You became a blank page for Him to write sonnets of peace and of love, and He named you worthy. You became a stone slab in which God is now chipping away at, creating in you a new heart and shaping you into who you were always meant to be: His child.

God is an artist.

This is insanely good. I love it. I need to hang it on my wall.

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Thankful for these girls everyday, but especially today. They have each blessed my life in more ways then they are going to know on this side of heaven, and I am beyond honored to call them sisters and friends. These hearts are chocked full of such immeasurable love, and the deep joy, and true community I have found in these girls by no means ended this summer. Until next reunion, #catawbalove

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Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Hebrews 13:6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

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Want this tattoo! #faith

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Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?

Saint Gerard Majella (via amartyrschallenge)

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If you’re a woman, and you get what you want by batting your eyelashes or faking fragility, and then you wonder why you’re not taken seriously in your career or given responsibility in your church, I think you may have believed the reigning cultural lie about what makes us attractive. And if you’re a man, and you celebrate femininity only as it presents itself in beauty and tenderness, please consider widening your view of what it means to value women. Consider strength, intelligence, passion, and compassion. I want businesses and government systems and certainly churches to be led more and more often by women. I believe that men and women would both benefit from it in dozens of ways. But if that’s going to happen, I think we have to declare a princess-free zone. No tiaras, no Girls Gone Wild, no pretending we can’t carry things. No fairytales, no waiting around to be rescued, and absolutely no playing dumb.

Shauna Niequist (via movinggrowingbeing)

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Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.

1 Chronicles 16:34 (via breanna-lynn)

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I want you to gobble life up in huge bites, tasting everything, trying every new flavor, remembering every smell and texture like it’s the best thing you’ve ever had. I want you to live with wild and gorgeous abandon, throwing yourself into each day, telling the truth about who you are and who you are not, writing a love song to the world itself and to the God who made every inch of it. I want you to invest yourself wholly and deeply in friendship, God’s greatest evidence of himself here on earth. More than anything, I want you to come to the table. In all sorts of ways, both literally and metaphorically, come to the table.

Shauna, Niequist -Bread & Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes (p. 258). (via eternal-optimism)

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If arithmetic is numbers, and if algebra is numbers and letters, then grace is numbers, letters, sounds, and tears, feelings and dreams. Grace is smashing the calculator, and using all the broken buttons and pieces to make a mosaic. Grace isn't about having a second chance; grace is having so many chances that you could use them through all eternity and never come up empty. It's when you finally realize that the other shoe isn't going to drop, ever. It's the moment you feel as precious and handmade as every star, when you feel, finally, at home for the very first time. Grace is when you finally stop keeping score and when you realize that God never was, that his game is a different one entirely. Grace is when the silence is so complete that you can hear your own heartbeat, and right within your ribs, God's beating heart, too.

Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet (via hollowtowers)