there are misfortunes we almost expect in life…and then there are other dark moments, moments of sudden violence, that alter everything. there was my life before the tragedy. there is my life now. the two have painfully little in common.
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Interview with the Atheism Examiner
Thanks to Staks for the great questions. Here’s the link:
Interview: Rob Bell author of ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About God’
what is faith if there isn’t some doubt right there in the middle of the mix? they are, after all, dance partners.
the gospel is the good news that god hasn’t given up on the world. that the tomb is empty, that a giant resurrection rescue is underway, that you and i can be a part of it.
and so, yes, this has a deeply personal dimension to this. jesus is saving me. he’s saving me from my sins, from my mistakes, from my pride, from my indifference to the suffering of the world around me, from my cynicism and despair. the brokenness i see around me is true of my own soul and so he’s rescuing me moment by moment, day by day because god wants to put it all back together. you, me, the whole world.
and so he starts deep inside each of us, with our awareness that we need help, that we need saving, that we need rescuing.”
fygr:
(via Twitter / Cmdr_Hadfield: Grand Rapids, MI, with the …)
Grand Rapids from space. An astronaut took the picture.
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better.
replace write with speak. (via chemicalsbetweenus)
(Source: strangerains)
87/360. I love this city. I just wished I lived closer to downtown.
I want to go to there.
(Source: alise-matilde)
“Moses is essentially saying to these poor, wandering, former slaves in this wilderness, ‘it’s not always gonna be like this. someday, you’re gonna arrive in your new land, and you’re gonna build houses, and you’re gonna settle down, and you’re gonna have crops, and you’re gonna harvest them. someday, you’re gonna be successful…and the danger is you’re gonna forget eqypt. you’re gonna forget what it’s like to be set free. the danger is you’re gonna forget what it was like to experience liberation.” - nooma 023, “corner”
sometimes people get upset or annoyed at how cheery and goofy I am. I like to sing and dance like a fool and laugh til I cry. i know people look at me like I’m strange but I don’t care—I spent a long time being sad, and I have no interest in going back there. I’m making up for lost time. celebrating every minute. I’m alive.
