May 2013
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23:32
Eating some humble pie, gawking at the 85 f/1.2 that D is lending me for graduation week (…….), thankful but bittersweet that sophomore year is officially over, ready to finish watching The Sea In Between, remaking some vows for next year. God, thank you for the chance to really learn what it means to play background. Your kingdom come, your will be done.
Amen.
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23:02
If I fail Econ this semester, I’m going to do English and be happy. Decided.
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02:33
Something that has been hitting me this week: I am really thankful for the spiritual older brother figures God has placed in my life since college began. Witnessing genuine zeal for God and a singleminded-ness towards the Creator in these godly men has been important in healing my trust and cynicism/skepticism. I wish I could actively appreciate people more and stop realizing these things only in...
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02:15
Today, I was reminded yet again of what covenant really means in the context of a God-honoring community. I find it sad that I never encountered this word before college—how is that possible, having grown up in the church? Unfortunately, it is way too possible, way too common—but I feel incredibly blessed to be able to experience it at all, now. Both through testimony and in my life,...
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09:53
Today is a new day and I’m blessed to be alive, breathing, healthy, and happy. Despite imminent exams trying to threaten my future and worth, I know that my education is at best just another way that God is helping me grow my understanding of stewardship and responsibility; a means to teach me and not to harm me. I will go about my day with a sense of hope and eagerness of what my Father has in...
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22:57
1 Corinthians 9:19-23
For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but...
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21:11
Struggling with forward motion. Been running in circles for the past year—a good circle, but a circle nevertheless—and it’s time that changes. I’m grateful for the times of refreshing that come with repentance, but I think a lot of my feelings of being stuck come from being unwilling to grow into the roles set before me. Today at summer orientation for the DC, a passing...
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April 2013
20 posts
00:24
I close my eyes and I see your face
If home’s where my heart is then I’m out of place
Lord, won’t you give me strength to make it through somehow
I’ve never been more homesick than now
Help me Lord cause I don’t understand your ways
The reason why I wonder if I’ll ever know
But, even if you showed me, the hurt would be the same
Cause I’m still here...
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20:49
But worth, value, and beauty is not determined
By some innate quality
But by the length for which the owner would go to possess them
And broken and ugly things just like us are stamped "Excellent"
With ink tapped in wells of divine veins
A system of redemption that could only be described as perfect
A seal of approval, fatal debt removal
Promised, prominent, perfect priest
Brilliant designed...
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I don’t know why, still I try To wrap my...
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19:57
It’s been a weird 24 hours of not wanting to do anything because I am sick, but also being really blessed during the moments I do get out of myself and go do…anything. One of those paradoxes of life to embrace. The thought of remembering faith as my convictions that I will abide by, even when I don’t feel like it, has also been on my mind all day. Somehow this relates, although...
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11:53
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21:49
Break down my pride and all the walls I’ve built up inside my earthly crowns and all my desires I lay at Your feet.
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02:16
Tonight’s InterPraise was haunting...
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10:52
No eye has seen, no ear has heard The depths of Your love, Lord No mind can fathom the love You deserve How great You are.
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12:04
today sticks out as one of those really undeserved, ideal days. i was thinking and began to try to list all the ways i’m thankful, and all of the little blessings that these past 24 hours have consisted of, but there are really just too many.
i am so incredibly fortunate to be a part of a community that takes its faith in God and covenantal commitments to one other seriously. as the weekend...
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09:39
Currently spending this beautiful Friday...
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08:35
I miss you but I know it’s unfounded.
Thank you, God, for the little encouragements each day. To help me remember.
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01:15
Lord, this pathway may not be easy
But it’s where I’m meant to be.
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11:35
Found this gem last week. Really getting...
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00:06
Why not rather be wronged?
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23:31
I am a sinner, if it’s not one thing...
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Breathe in me Your life I can feel You are close...
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18:21
“To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?” — 1 Corinthians 6:7
March 2013
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15:32
Vulnerable moment: noticeable or not, I’ve stopped putting 99% of my very personal thoughts online in fears of portraying things incorrectly, giving the wrong impression to people who do not have the full story—everyone, really, because who ever has the full story?—and as a step to keep myself accountable to being an older sister. And many other little things.
But, although...
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00:42
Everything, all I am and all I have to...
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01:03
Me from last year abhorred change and despised it to the core.
Me right now still doesn’t like change, but accepts it as an exciting new chapter of life. How things…change.
Excited for next year. Thankful for now. Mmm.
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18:10
I will thank you forever, because you have done it. I will wait for your name, in the presence of the godly.
(Psalm 52:9)
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18:08
What a joy I’ll sing of on that day...
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00:26
Scars and struggles on the way But with joy...
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11:35
For not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm, and the light of your face, for you delighted in them.
Psalm 44:3
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20:59
I’ve found a love greater than life...
February 2013
19 posts
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01:12
There are a lot of words found in what is unsaid. I used to think it was better to just not speak, but now I’m not too sure.
Forgive me for all the ways I am inadequate and not prepared to love the people I need to love.
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10:31
I’m overcoming fear with Your perfect love.
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00:04
He is always, always, always, always, always good. Faithful to the end.
Shivers.
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16:22
Mercy, mercy, brings me to my knees As the...
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12:37
Things to be grateful of:
Zion being fantastic.
Today’s $2 hit albums on Amazon (Muse!)
This morning’s long-overdue brunch date with R
Warmer weather and natural light, always
The privilege to help lead worship on Sundays
My ever-supportive network of friends and family
Quiet work afternoons
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11:59
Really excited for Zion to be released tomorrow. Find the free streaming link here!
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The Mountain of Fear and the Mountain of Joy 18 You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm; 19 to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them, 20 because they...
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05:48
Pretty decent essay, I’d say. Takeaway point: the African American culture is awesome.
Midterm, you will get rocked tomorrow.
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02:09
Anti-gravity moments. Realizing my favorite songs are all from 10 years or more ago. I’m such a sucker for anything and everything nostalgia-evoking.
Must sleep earlier.
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01:09
Oh man, I am in the middle of a microeconomic mental breakdown, seeing that my problem set is due tomorrow and so is my statistics homework and I also have a stat quiz that is conveniently unrelated to the homework that I have not yet studied for…and tomorrow is my busy, 5-class day…
But then I randomly came upon this picture of my dad on his company website and you know, I think life...
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15:52
So never say it’s unfair, That...
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21:08
Dying to myself. Little steps each day. Must remember why I do this.
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