Grief

"All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But what I've discovered since is that the lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place and that only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it….it is at once intolerable and a great opportunity."
"One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence."

- Traveling Mercies

Beyond Mountains

http://youtu.be/36Gk8mSNFTk

a friend shared this.  it's worth sharing further.  :)

P.S. Haiti means, "Land of mountains."

Odessa Rose - "Mountains"
if you ever need someone to cry to
if you ever need someone to hold you
i will be there
standing by your side
i will be there
standing by your side

if you ever need someone to just love you
if you ever need someone to simply adore you
i will be there
standing by your side
i will be there
standing by your side

and from the mountains to the sea

in the city

from the valleys to the moon
in every country
i will be there
standing beside you
i will be there
standing by your side

i will be there
standing beside you
i will be there
standing by your side

Know Yourself

"Grant, Lord, that I may know myself that I may know Thee."

~ Augustine

"Our wisdom…consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other."

~ John Calvin 

11.12.13.14.15

Time is weird.  Why do we make big deals about it?  It keeps moving.  Patterns keep occurring.
November 12, 2013 at 2:15 P.M.  It doesn't mean anything, but... it's still kinda cool.

Anything. Everything

“A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing."

~Martin Luther

the people you need

"God doesn't give you the people you want; He gives you the people you NEED…to help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you and to make you into the person you were meant to be." ~KP

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzze!!!!!!!!