Emily

Coffee | Baker | Christ | ULM 📍LA(not the California kind)

[geographilic]

Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

[fl-o-ra]

[cronologic]

[hannaoliviaway]

windy mountain drive

[andallshallbewell]

[gratitudechangesthings-deactiva]

“I was crying holding my wife saying, ‘God, I love her so much—there’s no way I could even express this physically.’ She said I would touch her and it would feel like I was touching her everywhere. I would hold her and it felt like God was wrapped around us. His presence was more consuming than anything you could experience in the flesh. And that was our first time together in new life. I’ve been on both sides of that fence, and I wonder why the other side ever even attracted me or turned my head; it’s because I didn’t know the truth of what was there all the time.”

— // Godly intimacy in marriage // anon

[kayeblegvad]

[samxcamargo]

“Sacrificing who you are for the sake of what others think just isn’t worth it.”

— Brené Brown

[malfascination]

[fantasticarepickles]

this makes my heart ache

Silverstein always has been, and always will be my favorite poet because he doesn’t even need words in his poem to make people open their eyes.

[wild-cabins]

Joelle Friend

[thevisualvamp]

Follow me

[lifeinpoetry]

And it feels

important to say, that now, under all this almost newness,

I can watch my own heart as it beats. I can look at my life more

closely than ever, and how beautiful it is, really, just under the skin,

alive & alive & alive— like a warm moon.

— Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from “On Crescents & Transition & Waning,” published in Portland Review

[ikwt]

[one-small-garden]

“We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.”

— The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

[newlifepureheart]

Learning to prepare for an outcome I can see is easy; if I know when I do something, I’ll get a specific reward, than it’s that much easier to prepare for it because I can see the end goal. 

But how do we prepare for a God-size promise, that often times don’t present themselves the way we can see? We need to pray to hear from Him, and then pray it in, like how Elijah prayed in the rain. If Elijah had not prepared in prayer, he wouldn’t have reaped in rain. 

When was the last time we went into our prayer closet and said, “God, I’m not moving until I hear from you?” 

Also, did you notice that the drought actually ended before the rain came? Even though nothing is happening? That small cloud was evident enough to Elijah of God’s promise. Is there a cloud in my life that is not what I’m expecting as the answer to my prayer but it is actually God’s answer? 

And, Elijah has clearly showed us that when we run on faith, we run on the power of the Promise, and we can outrun chariots. 

I truly believe that often times God is waiting for us to prepare for His blessings, because He loves us too much to have us be unprepared for a blessing that He promised but we can’t sustain. 

Elijah prayed in rain, but his prayer also started a new season too. Sometimes, the preparation is obedience. Maybe it’s praying for open hearts, eyes, and ears. Maybe it’s to be reborn. Maybe it’s for chains to be broken. Maybe for all of the above. 

Pray to learn how to prepare for God’s blessings so when you are ready, He can do what only He can do and watch Him (and you) accelerate into His blessings. And then the blessing will shine in His glory. 

[thegoodvybe]

[coral]

So I cry as I hold you for the last time in this life.