Ponderances

musings on a life of passion & purpose

[ponder-muse]

Can we get this funded? Yes we can! Join me in helping @Safeworld build a clinic in Uganda. Every little bit counts.

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[admajoremperaspera-deactivated2]

Hey timbaffiny you’ll appreciate these puns

[ponder-muse]

#startconference commences in T-13 hours. What's your risk? (at Nashville, TN)

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I think the fortune cookie fairy got this one right.

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#savethebeard Please contribute to #StartJoy and The Generosity Project http://www.gofundme.com/TheGenerosityProject

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Love & faithfulness.

[ponder-muse]

Ready. Is it 11am yet? #startsociety @jonacuff

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#startsociety phone call in less than 3 hours with @jonacuff. I've got some thinking to do.

[cheyennerose8-deactivated201602]

“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.”

 G. M. Trevelyan (via cheyennerose8)

[ponder-muse]

What are you waiting for? #godogood

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How I feel about my new friends from #startexp

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Wonder if my neighbors ever think these late night/early morning concerts are for their benefit.

[squishymeanderings]

Sometime,

In a time before,

I was afraid

so I hid.

I thought I had

nothing to share

nothing to give

I thought I was

Nothing.

And I was afraid

that people would see

the nothing in me.

But now I know

what was really scaring me

was the simple idea

that I might be

Something.

That I...

[ponder-muse]

Since I'm not a poet, I will borrow the words of another. They echo the same thoughts in my head.

[corycopeland]

You Don't Have to Say 'Yes'

You Don’t Have to Say ‘Yes’ | NEW POST

Life is full of questions. But you knew that, didn’t you? (see, there’s another one.)

Recently, I asked a pretty big question. I asked for someone’s forever. And I asked her to accept mine in return. I asked her to allow me to be hers and only hers from…

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[m3rrily-blog]

You are meant to be here, you see. You are destined for fantastic and brilliant things, things only you can do. So those voices that tell you that you are nothing, that you aren’t important, that you aren’t special, that you are useless or worthless or insignificant, they are wrong. They are so very very wrong. Because locked away in the tips of your fingers and the shine of your eyes and tilt of your smile is the power to change the world.

[bendempsey-deactivated20150421]

Say no so you can say yes.

Sometimes you need to say “No” in order to say “Yes” to the things that matter. 

Here are 5 keys to that help me say No:

Identify what is making you not be productive. Eliminate it. 

Stop being so nice. You cannot please everyone.

If you cant take care of…

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[ponder-muse]

Great reminders.

[m3rrily-blog]

THERE ARE DAYS WHEN I WANT TO RIP MY HEART OFF MY SLEEVE AND TUCK IT INTO MY POCKET.

To hide and protect it from curious eyes and judgmental fingers that stare and poke like my feelings and heart and soul are here for their amusement or pleasure.

Perhaps it is better to feel nothing at all?

But you never feel nothing. Even in the darkest times there was always a whisper of a feeling that threatened to yell and scream if I gave it the attention it wanted. They worked beneath the surface, I could feel them just under my skin – pulsing and itching – desperate to be let free.

Don’t wear your heart on your sleeve, we’re told. Don’t give someone the chance to yank it off and toss it around like a beach ball until it deflates or is torn to pieces by the cynical or realistic or cold-hearted or jaded.

Don’t be vulnerable. Don’t trust. Don’t give someone your feelings so they can fashion them into weapons to be used against you.

Don’t feel too much. Don’t care too much. Don’t love too much. Moderation in all things, we’re told.

Wear your armor and protect yourself. Your heart is always a weakness. Your emotions betray you. Lock your heart away in a tower, guarding it from those you stand below beckoning, “Let me in.”

We shake our heads no.

Our heart whispers please.

[ponder-muse]

This is beautiful.