The Growing Pain @thegrowingpain-blog - Tumblr Blog

As I walked through the streets of Berkeley tonight listening to the overwhelmingly white crowd chant things like “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “This is what democracy looks like!” I felt uncomfortable. I passed white people holding signs that said “I can’t breathe” and I felt uncomfortable....

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Squad means family. Squad means no one gets left behind or forgotten

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Please don’t give up! I know that sometimes it feels like you’re working for nothing, but your hard work will be worth it in the end.

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Lemme upgrade u

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I want to trust that God is who he says he is. That like a blooming rose, Jesus revealed the mystery promised to the seed of Abraham; the beauty of a good Father, unraveled, for all the world to see. I want to trust that the one I lift my hands to is the Abba who leaps off his porch and runs to...

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If you’ve been sitting quietly, year after year, hoping that someone will finally start speaking a language that makes sense to you, may I suggest that you are that person? If you’ve been longing to hear a new language for faith, one that rises and falls like a song, may I suggest that you start singing? If you want your community to be marked by radical honesty, by risky terrifying ultimately redemptive truth-telling you must start by telling your truth first.

Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet (via ramsesprashad)

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Look at Janelle Monae killin em.

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Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit—you choose. - Proverbs 18:21 (MSG)

Remember: we have a choice every day with the words we give to other people. We can use our words to breathe life into another person or we can use our words to suck the life right out of them. (via simply-divine-creation)