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A lot of people are struggling, even if it isn’t obvious (especially on social media, where we tend to present the best version of ourself). This is hard! We all need a little extra support right now ♥️ Don’t be afraid to ask for help if you need it.
“Father, I want to know You, but my coward heart fears to give up its toys. I cannot part with them without inward bleeding, and I do not try to hide from You the terror of the parting. I come trembling, but I do come. Please root from my heart all those things which I have cherished so long and which have become a very part of my living self, so that You may enter and dwell there without a rival. Then will You make the place of Your feet glorious. Then will my heart have no need of the sun to shine in it, for Yourself will be the light of it, and there will be no more night there. In Jesus’ name, Amen.”
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A. W. Tozer
Hope is essential to human life. Without it we try to stay busy enough so that we are distracted by the bleak realities ahead. God's master story, of course, is the story of hope. '[A plan has been set forth in Jesus Christ], a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In him you, when you believed him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.' (assembled pieces of Eph. 1:9-14) The part about "all things... in heaven and things on earth"? God's plans are to restore us--and creation itself. All things amiss now are to be gathered in under the activity of King Jesus. Everything will be made right. Something is afoot. Not only do we personally know the forgiveness of sins; we are also brought into God's plan to restore justice, beauty, reconciliation, and mercy. When we come to Jesus, life is suddenly jammed with purpose. ...This hope strengthens us in the hardships and drudgeries of everyday life. Knowing where all things in heaven and earth are headed, we can wait and persevere (1 Thess. 1:2), and that endurance or perseverance is key to a life well lived. Without it we are left with grumbling, addition, or despair, With it, we look ahead and tell a different story than the present distress tries to tell. Whereas chronic suffering assumes that nothing will ever change, hope knows that our rescuer is committed to our good. Hope knows the love of Jesus and grows in confidence that all the promises God makes have already been yes in Jesus.
Edward T. Welch, Side by Side
A helpful reminder when everything goes crazy! And all the resulting free time you have could be used to suppress that difficulty of it.
It’s a gentle lifting of the head. “Hello, there’s hope! And you get to be part of it.”
You fill my soul with healing
And soothe my faithless murmurs
Until I rest in your peace
Be praised, great God, to the fullest!
You deserve the highest of praises.
Behold, heart! Be diligent, soul!
Body, guard from sluggishness.
The Lord deserves the glory
The glory due his name
...Another characteristic of life in the flesh is that, in both obvious and subtle ways, the self hides from and defends itself against God. My flesh wants to glory in the flesh. But this is one thing that God will never permit. So what does the flesh do? Tragically it protects itself because it fears that because God destroys the glory of the flesh, he will also destroy us. It cannot grasp that this same divine glory is committed to doing us good. It cannot see that self-protection against God's glory leads only to our ultimate loss.
Sinclair B. Ferguson in “Devoted to God: Blueprints for Sanctification”, Ch. 8
History of British and Irish languages: an interesting gif by Starkey Comics
The original post contains still versions of all the maps with nice concise explanations.
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YOU HAVE SPOKEN! Six new downloadable (& free!) valentines for 2019 Click here to download!
Once you’ve clicked the link (in previous tweet) hit the “download” button, & save to your computer. Print from home, or bring the file into a copy/printing place. I recommend using non-glossy card stock. Remember to print double-sided, so you get the to/from info on the back! Print as many as you’d like, share with your friends & POST! I’d love to see you all with your valentines Remember to tag #LizClimoValentines
To download last year’s valentines, click this link and follow the same instructions. Then you’ll have 12 to choose from!
"We sometimes fear that the New Testament's teaching on being devoted to God, and on growing in Holiness, will place unbearable demands on us. Remember therefore that it is the apostle Peter we are listening to here. Few disciples of the Lord Jesus have made more of a public mess of their early Christian life than he did. But the very fact that it is this disciple writing about Holiness ought to reassure us that Christ does not command on what he will not provide. There is no need to be permanently disabled by past failure or paralyzed by the fear that we are doomed to repeat it."
Sinclair B. Ferguson, Devoted to God
“I’m known for my honesty. My grandfather taught me that it’s better to carry rocks on your head than to make a dishonest living. I’ve never taken a bribe. I’ve worked in the judicial court for decades and have been offered all sorts of money and gifts. A hospital once offered me an entire floor of their building, if only I’d settle a dispute in their favor. I told them to take it up with someone else.” (Udaipur, India)
one more because i can’t feel this way about a song related to me if i don’t post it on tumblr
also this is a late post
it’s a late night
*dreamy face turns to dreams~
of course i’m only back because it’s a late night
it’s a late night because... i’m wedding planning? wedding... “planning”? :D
it’s good to be creative again. *dreamy face*
(i know lol, don’t judge the cover version)
rusty and stuff but alive :) (definitely recommend just listening with headphones) (and not watching haha)
HAVE I CHANGED?!?!?!?! #doodoodoo #flowers #bright #sunlight #driedflowers #addult17
There's more to these workhouse members of our linguistics inventory than you might think.
Arika Okrent has a nice overview of things linguists know about vowels on Mental Floss. Excerpt:
1. ENGLISH HAS MORE VOWELS THAN THERE ARE LETTERS FOR THEM.
A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y are the letters we define as vowels, but vowels can also be defined as speech sounds. While we have six letters we define as vowels, there are, in English, many more vowel sounds than that. For example consider the word pairs cat and car, or cook and kook. The vowel sounds are different from each other in each pair, but they are represented by the same letters. Depending on the dialect, and including diphthongs, which are combinations of two vowel sounds, English has from nine to 16 vowel sounds.
2. THE MOST COMMON VOWEL IS SCHWA.
The most common vowel sound in English doesn’t even have its own letter in the alphabet. It does have a symbol, though, and it looks like this: ǝ. It’s the “uh” sound in an unstressed syllable and it shows up everywhere, from th[ǝ], to p[ǝ]tato, to antic[ǝ]p[ǝ]tory. You can discover nine fun facts about it here.
3. YOUR SPANISH SOUNDS AMERICAN BECAUSE OF DIPHTHONGS.
In addition to pure vowel sounds, there are diphthongs, where the sound moves from one target to another. American English is full of them. The vowel in the American pronunciation of no is a diphthong that moves from o to u (if you say it in slow motion, your lips move from a pure o position to a pure u position). The vowel in the Spanish pronunciation is not a diphthong. It stays at o, and that what makes it sound different from the English version
Read the rest of the article, and check out How to remember the IPA vowel chart or 3D printed schwa cookie cutter instructions.
“I teach English at a community college in Queens. I love the job, but I hate grading papers. I’d prefer to just have one continuous discussion about Shakespeare. I envy the math teachers who can just put their tests through a Scantron machine. Placing value on a student’s writing is much more nuanced and complicated. What if they have great ideas but their English language skills aren’t as developed? What if English is their second language? What if they’ve faced major challenges in life? Do I ignore those things? Or do I consider context while grading? I want to set high standards and prepare my students for what comes next. But so many of them already have a self-defeating attitude. And I don’t want to discourage them any further.”
We crush other women with our need to be liked and accepted, because what they do give is never enough. Because it wasn't meant to be enough.
Christine Hoover on “The One Thing You Need to Know” about friendships, how to make broken things work well, and exactly how Christ being enough is, well, enough.
