It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.
When God brings needy people across my path, He has done this so that I can give them something substantial—something eternally significant.
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A large crowd surrounded Jesus. “He welcomed them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who needed healing. Late in the afternoon the Twelve came to Him and said, ‘Send the crowd away…
like it’s easy to feel like our love is invisible, especially to others. we get seen by the world as a solitary person. i can’t share the best parts of our life with most people. i can’t take selfies of us or make instagram posts or celebrate our love in the thousand casual ways that the couples around us do; there’s no common parlance for what we are
but i want tooo because i swear my life is full of so much love
and looking at us from the outside you simply don’t see into the experience of Being This Entity
thankfully art exists ^^ {and tumblr}
like i mean this is all the time. if we’re eating, walking to the store, standing around talking casually.. there’s always another dialogue going on
we've been traveling around italy having an invisibly romantic time
"...Such heroes and adventure offer a great model with which the reader can form his soul according to virtue. And a clear mark of virtue is a love for the home. Nevertheless, the human desire for a heroic adventure can result in the home becoming a place to which we are either traveling or leaving, as opposed to abiding."
- Mark Botts, from 'Homework: "Not unbecoming men who strove with gods."' (Forma Journal, Issue 19)
““I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in…
Inspired by 1 John 1:7If we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
Hallelujah!Blessing and honor to God, the Beautiful and Holy One!You are helping us walk togetherHelping us walk together in fellowship and light
Hallelujah! You areDrawing us together in the journey of faithCleansing…
Andrew Murray shares some insights that all pastors and preachers would do well to carefully consider.
“When the Lord chose His twelve disciples, it was ‘that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach’ (Mark 3:14). A life in fellowship with Him prepared them for the work of preaching. …
“The law of their first calling remained unchanged: their unbroken fellowship with Him was the secret of their power to preach and to testify of Him. …
“The same principle stands for all…