June 2011
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Lord, help us to become the answer to our prayers.
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If you’re willing to take a secret to your grave than you’re already dead.
If I have read the Bible correctly, I know many men who have never heard the...
– Mohandas Gandhi (via scottxstephens)
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If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can...
– CS Lewis (via featherfall)
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Don’t be a horse’s ass.
– Psalm 32:9
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Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are...
– The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
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Ask the poor. They will tell you who the Christians are.
– Ghandi (when asked if he was a Christian)
5:22
Do you want to give the Holy Spirit a fighting chance to produce his fruit in your life? Consider spending time with:
those over the age of seventy and under the age of seven
those with developmental disabilities
those from diverse cultures and ethnicities
those with different religious backgrounds and those with no religion at all
those with extravagant riches and those impoverished by...
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When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can...
– Henri Nouwen
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Hello. This is Rachel, your Onstar navigation...
Dearest Marigold,
I know you hate your job today, but I wanted you to know that I think what you do is altogether meaningful. Like the Eastern Star, you re-orient travelers to the right path so that they can get home (or to Bayou Billy’s Crab Shack and Alligator Pie Emporium).
Hang in there, babe. It’s not forever.
XOXO, Benjamin
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Beatitudes for People with Exceptional Needs
I recently started working for Christian Horizons - an agency that supports people with exceptional needs. As a new support worker I was given a bookmark with these beatitudes, which are modified from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (found in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 5 verses 3 to 12).
BLESSED ARE YOU who take time to listen to difficult speech, for you help us to know that if we...
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Merge The Village: Is Starbucks Doing a Better Job... →
joshsingh:
I’ve been reading “Onward” by Howard Shultz over the last few days. For those of you who don’t know who he is, Howard is the CEO of Starbucks. Whether you love Starbucks or not, whether you think their drinks are pricey or are a cheap luxury for the masses; the minute you open the book and…
[FOLLOW THE LINK TO CONTINUE READING…]
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psalm 61
lead me to the rock that is higher than I
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (5th verse)
Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin',
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
Where the executioner's face is...
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I find this to be a comforting sound and a clear message.
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This is a beautifully captured moment or three.
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Jonah having fun with the garden hose on a hot spring day :)
Here’s a clip of me singing We’re In This Together at Teen Challenge in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, in September of 2011.