Bold and Courageous

Priscilla• 25• in the learning process • John 16:33

[ladygoldenhair-deactivated20210]

“Do you remember when we first met? I thought I had wandered into a dream.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien (via quotemadness)

[dingyfeathers]

[forever-thankful]

[kieljamespatrick]

““Not sure if you have friends that would be up for this. In any case, I want to suggest something. Sometime pool some money together with as many friends as you can. Rent an old beautiful house on a scenic location for a weekend. Make some rules. Everyone must dress up their nicest for two days. Make some meals. Find some recipes. Set it up like Martha Stewart would. Set aside a 2-3 hour block where no one uses there phone. No one watches TV the entire trip. Talk. Tell stories. Take pictures. Play games, board games, sports, swim. Try out some delicious drinks you’ve never made before. Have a campfire and forget the radio, just sing. Bring a record player and just dive right into the the way our grandparents enjoyed life before we became so hooked on social media and electronic devices. I love cooking, I love singing, I love dancing, I love connecting. This has brought me happiness and I wanted to share it.”

— Kiel James Patrick (via perfectlyaskew)

[gratitudechangesthings-deactiva]

We’ve been taught to make a home out of the internet. “If you’re bored or tired, go online.” It’s in us to find identity here but in reality, the internet is not a home. It’s world where content is permitted that’s ungodly and called normal, so it’s not a friend or a zone for comfort. Our communion with Jesus is our only place of comfort and peace. If you trust in the world it will rule parts of your life.

[boldncourageous]

how do I learn to live again?

[fruityogurt]

[boldncourageous]

“I do exist, don’t I? It often feels as if I’m not here, that I’m a figment of my own imagination. There are days when I feel so lightly connected to the earth that the threads that tether me to the planet are gossamer thin, spun sugar. A strong gust of wind could dislodge me completely, and I’d lift off and blow away, like one of those seeds in a dandelion clock.”

Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

[anastasiatasou]

[larapaulussen]

2020 mood

[worshipgifs]

[basilikum]

[areasonablydressedwoman]

[boldncourageous]

today’s reflections from bible study

[crownedbythelord]

Do you think reading the bible is the best way to get closer to god? I try to pray and speak to him as much as I can but sometimes I feel like I’m not quite there if you get me

Everybody has a unique relationship with God. I would say his word, the Bible is like food to our souls, it’s a necessity in order to understand his character, love, grace, justice, mercy, this whole world, everything that is happening... But there are many ways to experience him in your personal relationship to get closer to him. Reading his word is basically the best thing you can do. But you can also dance, do art, sing, write poems, take a walk, go for a run, help someone, smile at someone, bless others, make gifts, go to a worship night or concert or just sit on the floor and ask him to come. Relationship means you invite him wherever and whenever you want him to be with you and the moment you ask him to join you or bless you you’ll experience how he is there for you. How suddenly a silly sketch turns out really funny or the walk turns out to be one of the most calming, restful moments you had in a while. He just wants to be the one you share everything you experience with. Like a father, like a brother, like a best friend. Look out for the good, focus on where you see goodness in your life – it’s his handwriting. It’s him saying „I love you, let me be there for you, let me help you, let me listen. I am here. I am.“

[boldncourageous]

“We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.”

- Timothy Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

[julieterbang]

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