LIFE WITHOUT BORDERS

{We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar & an urge for the foreign & strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for places we have never known- Carson McCullers} I have spent my whole life as a cautious individual. Fear is as much a normal part of my life as sleeping. Comfortable, as far as fear can be considered so is how I viewed it. Uncomfortable yes, but less so then moving into unknown places and situations. A year & a half ago God allowed circumstances to place me in an unknown season of life. In that he confronted the way I had comfortably been living in the corner, rather than choosing to tackle my fears head on. I got to a place where I realized that as uncomfortable as it might be to face my fears, living in quiet complacency would be worse. I made a promise that whenever God revealed a fear to me I would find a way to confront it. These pictures are part of my journey of learning to let God teach me to actually live with abandon

[brooklyn-parkergrey]

i just love all lavender everything. 

[freeyourssoul]

I’ll have dirt on my feet and stars in my eyes, I’ll be in the forest where the earth comes alive.

Alexandra   (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

[neutral]

Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard? Why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?

Malala Yousafzai winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (via neutral)

Wow

(via artsychild)

[l-o-v-e-over-g-o-l-d]

Faith is the art of holding onto things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.

C.S. Lewis (via kvtes)

[yesdarlingido]

I asked God to expand my capacity to love others, so He asked me to trade in my complacency for compassion, to replace my fear with curiosity, and to start making room for understanding instead of making excuses for ignorance.

LB, The Guts & Glory of Grace (via yesdarlingido)

[ljgelman]

.The Block at Orange.

[slinkybarbie]

You weren’t made for shallow waters.

 icepeaches (via thatkindofwoman)

[mari-danu]

And into the forest I go, to lose my self and find my soul.

(via manakahandmade)

[ljgelman]

Summer things ❤️

[daughterbydesign]

Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.

Bob Goff (via breanna-lynn)

[ljgelman]

Welcome to the neighborhood 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲

[seemoreandmore]

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you’re sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.

Max Lucado  (via pureblyss)

[breanna-lynn]

God is never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.

Bob Goff (via tblaberge)

[wordsnquotes]

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

Alice Walker: Living by the Word  (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

[yesdarlingido]

In these pages there is room for sacred doubting and holy tantrums because ultimately the love and grace of God permits us all that room.

Enigma Okoro (via yesdarlingido)

[psych2go]

I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don’t want to shrink back just because something isn’t easy. I want to push back, and make more room in the area between I can’t and I can.

Kristin Armstrong  (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

[ljgelman]

May flowers 💐 kmthorp