#practiced

[lynnswirld]

[bi-accident]

Practice makes perfect better

[howifeltabouthim]

You do have a way with words, my lord. I do declare you must practice.

Mary Balogh, from Thief of Dreams

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot preach faith unless you have exercised it. True preaching is artesian; it wells up from the great depths of the soul. If Christ has not made a well within us, there will be no outflow from us.

Charles Spurgeon

[shortnasties]

1837. Curdled Pastoral

This is called “Curdled Pastoral.” I want to die inside of a Slurpee. 

Somebody has turned up and caused strife in the farmlands again!

       It happens, like a practiced sunset, like a performed memory...

       All my life I am just waiting for the right moment to gag and turn my thumb down...

       This lake is disgusting. This mountain stinks. This view isn’t worth the headache of living the rest of the day out. 

        Opinions on the matter fill me like so many little Buddhas in the home of a person trying to be Buddhist... 

        ...Once, in a previous life, I was nature. I crawled down a forested hill. I napped on a log. I drank rain from large petals. I had no urge to analyze why I was so thoroughly and deeply problematic...   

[ramblebrambleamble]

They had about them an air

Of unstudied grace

(That they'd practiced for hours

In front of a mirror)

[jakeperalta11us]

When you have practiced your moment for long enough!