and the greatest of these

signed, sarah.

[skyuim]

2.16.16

When it stops raining, it happens fairly quickly. You’re looking out your window, watching the raindrops hit the ground, sipping your coffee... ‘ahh, this is nice.’ You glance away, to grab that novel you started last week, of course. You get comfortable, looking back at the window... through which you see that it’s no longer raining.

Kind of like what happened to me and everything I believed was unchanging - it all disappeared within moments.

But I got a glance of the rain today. Forecast says chances of precipitation are high until Friday... when I’ll have to head back north. 

[skyuim]

Enter by the narrow gate. #bethefew (at Golden Gate Bridge)

[skyuim]

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

m. this freedom is expensive.

[skyuim]

“i used to go to church, but i don’t anymore.”

“oh. why not?”

“i just don’t like how Christians are so judgmental and self-righteous.”

...but since when did it become about anything other than Jesus?

I agree and confess, I’m judgmental. I am self-righteous. I don’t love like I should. I covet. I’m greedy. I am impure. I am imperfect and flawed. I hurt other people with my words, my actions. I cause suffering and scars. I am not Jesus.

It should never be about the twisted ones like me. If only my imperfection could point to the perfection of Christ... why that would be the dream haha T_T

[teapalm]

[skyuim]

mhm.

[skyuim]

Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save. 

-Isaiah 46:4

to gray hairs, he says. to gray hairs i will believe. God help me.

[obscvred]

[skyuim]

A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.

[skyuim]

It was a long day.

I’m going through a very internal season. And have been doing so for a good while. I bear many burdens, alone. I consider it necessary, but I’d be lying if I said the loneliness of it was easy. When I’m with people I just want to be home curled up in my bed, drowning in my comforter alone. But when I’m home alone lounging around everything feels so dismal. My life seems to be this constant back-and-forth between longing and monotony. And by the end of each see-saw of a day, I’m just plain tired. Of everything.

But as I pray to God in these times I am only able to remember that God is good. God is good when I’m lonely. God is good when the days drag on. God is good when I feel lost. And I know that the Lord has prepared a place for me in his glorious house in which I will one day rest with Him. Somedays this is the only thing that keeps me going... 

I need more of you, Jesus. Please.

[skyuim]

Just thankful for my favorite weather today. 9/15/15

[autumn0butterfly-deactivated201]

[skyuim]

mhmm

[brianfulda]

I took a solo adventure tonight and treated myself to this view just after sunset. The city seemed so tranquil from up here.

San Francisco, CA. August 2015. (Instagram)

[skyuim]

hhhhhh

[brianfulda]

This place never ceases to amaze me, even with just a two day visit.

Yosemite National Park, CA. August 2015. (Instagram)

[skyuim]

um wow.

[skyuim]

I’m laying down all my religion & I will rejoice in the simple gospel.

[skyuim]

T_T

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 

Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

2 Corinthians 12:9

...getting emotional at 1:11AM on a tuesday night. Jesus have mercy....

[skyuim]

God doesn’t love you like He loves me. And he doesn’t love me the way He loves you. Yes His love is forever unconditional. It’s always abounding and sufficient. And it’s always perfect. But when I spend time in my secret place with Him, I know that He doesn’t love anyone else the same way he loves me. Because God’s love is not only universal but it’s personal. He doesn’t see me the way he sees you. And He doesn’t see you the way he sees me. And that’s fine. Because I am so in love with the way that He loves me. 

[ourlifeintransit]

[skyuim]

Hiking thoooooo :0 wow.

[skyuim]

He calls us to seek Greater things.