Write On.

c-h-r-i-s-t-i-a-n-a twentythree, exodus 12:12 Amor omnia vincit reblogs, reflections, rants, and randoms (: "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as...

[writeoncue]

When I first noticed the figure that everyone was staring at, I was scared. At the Embarcadero Bart station, there was a hooded small-framed person hunched over in the middle of a sea of people . Being in the city, you learn to keep your guard up and avoid interactions with strange people and everyone at the station made an effort to keep their distance. 

But as I, too, watched from afar, I noticed that the hooded person looked like he/she was about to fall so I ran to them. When she turned around, I really didn’t know what to make of the situation. She looked like a corpse; she was skin and bones and her whole body was wrinkly and disfigured. Her body was twisted and she could barely walk.

And so when she told me that she was trying to meet someone upstairs, while I admit it did flash through my mind that it could have been a scam, I felt a push to help her regardless and took hold of her hand. I introduced myself and amidst her heavy breathing, she told me her name was Kris. When we got to the top, she thanked me and told me I could leave, but I told her I wanted to wait with her.

She looked like she was in so much pain.. she would take three deep breaths, close her eyes, and almost fall to the ground. I stood behind her and steadied her until her friend did appear. Before she left though, Kris gave me this long hug and flashed me with this priceless toothless smile. 

The whole situation was really really eerie. Like..really I don’t know why she was there by herself in the first place. But God knew it was exactly what I needed. Whenever i’m hurting, God knows that the best way to help me out of it is to take my focus off the battle and back onto Him and His people. To be reminded that there’s a reason why i’m alive today and He’s not done with me yet.

[skewdperceptions]

Healing is a choice. It’s not an easy one, because it takes work to turn around your habits, but keep making the choice and shifts will happen.

Yehuda Berg (via godmoves)

[adelineania-deactivated20160108]

I urge you to please notice when you are happy.

Kurt Vonnegut  (via perfect)

[amatterofcourse]

Al… (by etringita)

[erinelizakelley]

There is nothing remotely good within me but Christ.

[writeoncue]

'When Jesus cursed the fig tree in Mark 11, it was an example of God’s mercy. The tree was a picture of “false advertising,” having leaves, but no figs. It wasn’t normal or healthy. That type of fig tree didn’t usually have leaves without also having figs. The tree was cursed because it professed to have fruit, but did not. The tree was “living a lie.” We can’t know the truth if we live a lie. We will each be judged for the fruit in our lives not for our leaves. In all of the works in the ministry of Jesus, this is the only “destructive” miracle. Jesus here most perfectly shows us the nature of God. He is willing to kill “counterfeit life” in us in order to keep us from killing our future. The question is, “Are we?”'

- KLOVE

[kristenmeriewieder-deactivated2]

[awwww-cute]

[emmeryn-whatcha-say]

A friend of mine took this picture at Phoenix Comic Con and it took me a moment to get it

[kissthewave-deactivated20211128]

You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.

John Piper  (via godmoves)

[mouthwingss]

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm’s way.

Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions (via mouthwingss)

[floralls]

Lighthouse Pigeon Point / Northern California (by 79 ideas)

[brittapperry]

[claudiagray]

Sometimes the greatest sarcasm is wasted. 

[dailydoseofstuf]

The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.

F. Chan, Crazy Love (via godmoves)

[alisonzai]

[writeoncue]

"Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says 'Rejoice with me: I have found my lost sheep.'" 

Luke 15: 4-5

In this weeks message on Matthew 18, Sabastian was talking about how in the old times the shepherd would go out to search for that one lost sheep. And when he found that sheep, it was common for shepherds to break that prone-to-wandering sheeps leg and reset it to discipline and prevent it from wandering off in the future. Sabastian emphasized this point to illustrate that as our Heavenly Father He may discipline us or let us go through pain at a certain moment to teach us and prevent us from making the same mistakes over again. 

I think i've finally realized how far I've been wandering and how lost I am. I feel like I haven't really been following His voice and instead have been trying to figure out a path for myself. I have no clue what i'm doing though and I'm done pretending that I am.

But now i'm ready to go home. I'm honestly scared of getting my leg broken haha, cause I know whatever is ahead is definitely not going to be easy. But how beautiful is it that the shepherd "joyfully puts the sheep on his shoulders and goes home." That in our brokenness and shame, we are joyfully lifted up and carried home.

[aadambautistaa]

What If You Just Left?

Have you ever wondered how much life would change if you got onto a plane randomly, without telling anyone, and left the world that has been so familiar to you for a long period of time? Like those times when you go on vacation and you have no way to contact those people at home to know what’s been happening since you been away. Don’t you wonder how many people would miss you? How many people would have even noticed that you’re gone? Don’t you ever wonder the magnitude of how much the people and things may change when you’re in a different place entirely as time will not wait for your return. 

For a brief moment, you must realize that life can still move forward without you. That the world truly doesn’t revolve around us. And though we may be missed, time doesn’t become frozen when we’re gone, but quickens in its incredible speeds to change the reality that we once knew. It doesn’t make us any less important to the people who loves us and who we know, but it should make us humble. To realize that to never take the people we have for granted, because it’s easy to leave and forget. It’s our jobs to keep the people in our lives that we want in it. 

[patcubed]

I wanna do this lol