— aeschylus. agamemnon (the orresteia), 458 BCE
— psalm 84:5-8
today is a psalm 38 kind of day. which is to say — i am such a broken person in need of God’s nearness and help. even as i sit and type this, i am wrestling with God a bit. i’m not angry with Him — i’m just tired. i don’t really understand a few of the things He is talking to me about, and i don’t know what it looks like to put one foot in front of the other when i’m so confused and exhausted.
but i know this: through my tears of frustration, through confusing conversations with Him, through my disobedience and delay, He carries me. His redemptive love is all-encompassing. He never sleeps, He is never frantic, He is never confused or tired. He can do all the things i cannot.
and i need Him more than answers.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (via therealspatz)
(Source: brianspatz)
yes.
this is freakin stunning. and i love this song. repeat please.
i will hold myself to a standard of grace. not perfection.
september third two thousand and eleven. our wedding day.
chase and i were blessed with a honeymoon in jamaica. yes, more than stoked. we cannot express our degree of gratitude enough — it’s been a long and treacherous journey without a solid resting point or vacation. jamaica was exactly what that was for us; nights of life size chess games, stumbling upon gnarly starfish in the ocean, napping in hammocks, sailing in both sunshine and rain, swimming with dolphins, mesmerized again and again by the breathtaking beauty in sunrises and sunsets, feasting like kings, and lavished with love by my spouse. God, dude, YOU are amazing… thank you for loving us; pursuing us; saving us; using us; and giving us this rest so that we can continue on for your glory. jamaica ruled.
“he is the half part of a blessed man left to be finished by such as she: and she a fair divided excellence whose fullness of perfection lies in him.”
— william shakespeare
