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Los Angeles. Seeing the beauty in complexities.

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The gospel tells me that there is not only hope in my trials, but purpose to them- This is because the gospel teaches me that God’s great goal is not superficial, circumstantial happiness, but joyful holiness. So I can trust that He is using my trials and struggles to change and transform me, to grow my faith, and sanctify my heart. Trials are not the absence of His love, but a great display of His love. And because the gospel reminds me of this devastating love of God, I know that it is impossible for him to allow anything in my life that is not an aspect of His love. So I can pray for God to do the miraculous, but be absolutely at ease if he doesn’t, because I trust that His plan for my life is brought in love. Only the gospel allows me to go through difficulties and still be a rest in my soul.

Kim Kira (via jasminecrystal)

Exactly this.

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(via Mansard Den with Bonfire-inspired Fireplace)

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Adrien Brody & Rachel Weisz in The Brothers Bloom

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Adrien Brody is so good at being sad.

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You can’t keep dancing with the devil and ask why you’re still in hell

Something my friend told me the other day  (via thatkindofwoman)

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Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay (via whyallcaps)

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yo.

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Nightscapes

Oregon-based photographer Matt Payne creates stunning landscape and nightscape photography. Payne uses long exposures and composites to illuminate the dark night skies and to capture the motion of the stars in visually stunning compositions. 

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Beautiful. You may also like my post on 

Star Trail Photography

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{ something to be grateful for }

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A riot is the language of the unheard.

Martin Luther King {the one you never quote} (via everythingrhymeswithalcohol)

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I remember when my niece, Toni, was a newborn, I’d babysit her and sometimes she’d cry, like babies do. Nine times out of ten I could solve the problem, I could figure it out, but sometimes… I don’t know. Sometimes I’m walking along the street and a shaft of sunlight falls in a certain way across the pavement and I just want to cry. And a second later, it’s over. And I decide, because I’m an adult, to not succumb to the momentary melancholy and I had that sometimes with Toni. She just had a moment like that. A moment of not knowing how, or why, and she just let herself go into it. And there was nothing anyone could do to make it any better — it was just her, and the fact of being alive… colliding.

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I thought, “When we’re eighty, I’ll tell Margot I’ve been doing this her whole life…”

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“Count it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” -James 1:2-4

Count it all joy. How, how...

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The God of grace takes the darkest moments of suffering and turns them into the brightest moments of humility, hope, love and grace.

Paul David Tripp (via godmoves)