from the heart

Grace - 21 - Berkeley/Fremont Living to Glorify. "Build a life, don't live one." —A. K.

[shinefromwithin]

me before working out: i dont wanna do this

me while working out: I D O N T W A N N A D O T H I S

me after working out: WOW, i am simply phenomenal. every drop of blood running through my veins is graced with the ichor of the gods, i am an olympic athlete

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When your freedom is found in Christ, the things of this world become extra blessings, because everything you truly “need” is found in Him.

Unclean Lips (via uncleanlips)

[psych-facts]

In a way, you are poetry material; you are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

Franz Kafka (via psych-facts)

[psych-facts]

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust (via psych-facts)

[shinefromwithin]

Letters for Black Lives (lettersforblacklives.com) started as a crowdsourced letter for Asian-American children who wanted a framework for discussing issues of anti-Blackness and police violence with their immigrant parents. It’s quickly grown into a vibrant community with more than 200 contributors, 30 translations, and many more voices being shared through words, sound, and video. 

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When it came to race, it was always "don't make waves," "don't stir up trouble," "that's not our place."

So this project started by fellow Asian Americans working for hours together on a Google Doc, to me, is beautiful, moving, powerful, encouraging, inspiring, convicting, empowering, and SO needed.

A deep thank you to everyone who started this, contributed, and worked so hard to make it a reality. It's incredible how much has been done in just a few days to speak out boldly about this silent issue from within our Asian American community. 

I am proud of my APA community, my people, and the ways we're pushing more and more of our friends and family members to acknowledge and proclaim that ‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬ -- not only in our words, but in our actions.

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For anyone interested.

[shinefromwithin]

This encourages me so much. 

People from all over collaborated via the Internet on an open letter to Asian American parents about #BlackLivesMatter and racial relations in the US.

Share widely!

[gracechen]

We have a strange idea that God does not really care for us, does not really like us and certainly does not take seriously who we are and what we want. So it is difficult for us to really believe that God wants to give us the desires of our hearts. But—and this is the point—God cannot grant us the fullness of his grace to sanctify the whole of our lives, including our desires, unless we have a fundamental receptivity to him.

Gordon T. Smith, Listening to God in Times of Choice: The Art of Discerning God’s Will (via gracechen)

[shinefromwithin]

Wow. Really appreciate how vulnerable and real @buzzfeed Eugene is in this video - it wasn’t something I expected, given what Buzzfeed usually pushes out. But everyone needs to watch this, and act.

Thank you Eugene for speaking truth that is hard for most of us to even name, and sharing all of it from the heart. I admit I've become pretty disillusioned myself with our political system, but you couldn't be more right - action needs to be taken, and no one is excused from that responsibility. 

I'm sharing this video and contacting House & Senate reps. Praying that more and more of our generation, including many of you who see this video, will be moved to stand up and fight for change that's already been way too delayed.

[shinefromwithin]

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step towards disaster. Everyone has a slightly different version of these anxieties and confusions, but in one way or another they all arise from the fear that real change destroys the old ways that we have learned to equate to 'who we are' and 'what we need.' To act on what we really want is the same as saying that 'I, a unique person, exist.' It is to assert that we are on our own in a much deeper sense than we every imagined when we were originally setting up shop as adults. That earlier process involved only independence; this involves autonomy and the firm individual purpose on which that is based.

William Bridges, Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes

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English Bulldog puppy at the sea

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[ponderation]

Yosemite Sunlight by HaydenScott 

[andletliveagain]

It’s sad to think that you may never see or talk to someone again who you once considered to be one of the most important people in your life at a certain point in time. This is one of those concepts that I will never be able to understand. 

[shinefromwithin]

You have the power to change that.