May 2013
5 posts
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April 2013
7 posts
#FollowSeries →
northpointministries.org
Regardless of what you believe, or how you live your life, I welcome you to watch this series. I’ve been a Christian for most of my life (and Christians have annoyed me for most of my life lol) and this series (now in it’s third week) is helping me see Jesus in a ways I didn’t see before.
Plus, Andy Stanley is a great speaker :)
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March 2013
19 posts
I just said to God...
“I’ll be cool with being like a churchlady housewife. Cool?”
He replied with a very emphatic NO.
Oh okay.
Back to the drawing board.
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So, I Waited For Him To Tell Me He Liked Me First. →
goodwomenproject.com
Cool story bro. Great advice.
“…when I sense myself placing too many pieces of my value in my attractiveness to other people, I remember that God’s love triumphs over any form of flattery and I am thereby no longer basking in my own fleeting glory but God’s permanent glory.”
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A Story On Confidence, Compliments, And Street Harassment - Good Women Project
I love this site.
lower-income people tend to be “hoarders” and richer people are able to do more “minimalist” living spaces. if u don’t have much, you will hold onto any little thing that comes across your way. you got a new tv, but you still keep the old tv because you know things can break. you keep extra boxes of macaroni and cheese lying around because there will be a week when you don’t have money for groceries. you hold onto your stacks of books and clothes for dear life. those are your assets. physical evidence of where your money’s gone. it’s hard to get rid of it. the bare wall is terrifying when you don’t have much.
welcome to my world.
I like men who...
- watch CBS shows. Creeping up on old man status and that’s cute.
- live simply. Even if you got it, no need to spend it.
- send me bible verses for encouragement. Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it.
- are not afraid of maintaining their personal growth. Go to the therapist just because. That’s great.
- are not afraid to indulge in corny media consumption. That’s me, all day everyday. Don’t be scared.
This has been a public service announcement.
“People who date with the mentality that “something is better than nothing” usually end up with something that turns out to be nothing.”
—Hart Ramsey (via ayougo)
“A marriage based not on self-denial but on self-fulfillment will require a low- or no-maintenance partner who meets your needs while making almost no claims on you. Simply put—today people are asking far too much in the marriage partner.”
—You Never Marry the Right Person
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
—Ira Glass (h/t @ouxu)
February 2013
31 posts
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So this is what it's like
to like someone who inspires you to be closer to Jesus.
Oh.
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To Be Hip, Gifted, and Black - Kyla Marshell →
kylamarshell.com
This is an unavoidable fact—the whiteness of the hipster population. The very essence of being a hipster is being privileged enough to call yourself one (or, more often than not, to deny that identity). And privilege is something constantly, perhaps eternally, accorded to white people. The traits associated with this genre of American are all related to privilege, in some fashion: lack of gainful employment with a strong financial dependence on one’s parents; interest in the arts; middle-class background; high level of education; a love for irony, even.
But couldn’t these qualities also be attributed to certain sects of the black race? Although I don’t typically associate the aforementioned traits with black people, it’s undeniable that I possess them all. And there are plenty more where I came from, in Brooklyn and beyond—people who are unmistakably of the black community, yet part of a minority because we are educated, and some of us part of an even smaller minority because we are artists.
A position a lot of people find themselves in nowadays.
Interesting read.
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