Scripts

"In your book were written, everyone of them, the days that were formed for me."  I  love beautiful words, ideas, laughter, music, fabrics, shoes, shapes, trees, trips, and wit. (Disclaimer: Pics are not mine. Words, mostly, are)

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A Thought and a Prayer (April 2015)

Jesus left a radical example of how we are to love and radical proof of how we've been and are loved. The New Testament stories about Jesus are past tense- what He did do, what He did say, how He did sacrifice His life for ours. The Truth of those stories, the immense grace, the net of security, and the bar of requirement they establish, are meant to be told in present tense. If He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then as He loved the rebellious, the scandalous, the doubter as much as the devout, then He still does so now. The radical example he set was for the purpose of loving one another.  He showed me who and how so that I may love as he loved- radically and without condition. If I am to love as Jesus loved, I must first have the strength to understand the dimensions of his love, the length, height, depth, and breadth. It will take strength to understand it because I am a human with human experiences. The disappointments I have encountered speak to future disappointments, speak to how I have disappointed others. Disappointments make barriers. The barriers I carry and the barriers those around me carry block us from one another. Let love wreck them. The dimensions in which I am rooted cannot be contained, that I would lay down my life for a friend, that I would let the constructed walls be torn down so that I can touch another human being with human experience. So that I might see beyond experience and see a spirit longing to see the radical nature of a loving God.  His love leaves me without excuse. My prayer when I feel without compassion in a world dying for it, is that His love would be my reservoir. His love, my resource. The radical example and the radical proof have left me with one command, let love wreck the whole of me and all my walls.  Love is a Kingdom tactic, love is how the Kingdom comes.

Ephesians 3.... and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

All the fullness of God, comprehended and extravagantly given away.

www.mgnlaurel.wordpress.com  The Beautiful New

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He works on us in all sorts of ways: not only through what we think our “religious life.” He works through Nature, through our own bodies, through books, sometimes through experiences which seem (at the time) antiChristian. But above all, He works on us through each other.

Mere Christianity // C. S. Lewis (via kvtes)

[mgnlaurel]

Time Wins (even when there's no competition)

A snowy Saturday.

Time is passing and nothing is accomplished,

Not even enough nothingness.

There is only one day to do absolutely nothing,

there is not enough time to do all the not.

All the reads and writes and investigating websites,

for movie-thons and trash tv.

Which comfy uniform best suits the spirit of the day, the attitude of my mind

lounge: plaid button down, baggy gray sweats only eye to see them, mine.

Which playlist to pick out of the ceaseless sources of Spotify

A.D.D tracking between lists

landed on: "Boardwalks" Little May-Indie Acoustics.

There is only one day to do absolutely nothing,  for this

February-dweller at the mercy of winter.

There is not enough time to do all of the not.

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She began to realize, just as was explained she would, that the answer to what she asked for was far beyond what she could have expected. Because the answer to her question came with ease. Came with intention. Came with pursuit. Arrived one summer day and stayed. Stayed present, stayed constant, stayed patient. 

He came and stayed. Boldly, gently, he stated the state of his thoughts and heart. Boldly, gently he waited for her to catch up, to catch on, to quit being afraid, to jump in.  

Waits for her still to learn and relax in the weighted security of a mutual love. No prodding or persuading. She doesn’t have to fit into small shapes any more. No more pageantry. No more contorting into what might be wanted. For reasons she hasn’t fully grasped, he is there. He sees the shape she already is, always was, and asks to see more. More of her. Not more of her imitations. With him, she is her. With her, he is him. Far beyond what she could have expected. The beautiful new. 

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I’m a simple woman, I like handsome bearded brunette men and breakfast food.

Channeling Ron Swanson for life.  (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

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Love them until they get it. And then keep going.

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For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (via dailydoseofstuf)

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