July 2012
168 posts
Andrew: Name two things that matter.
Me: Jesus and ice cream.
Clearly, I know what's important in this world.
Having all my siblings in the same house is such a...
And having my little nieces running around reeking havoc is also a blessing.
Thank you, Lord, for such a wonderful family.
“Putting off holiness until tomorrow means that the devil has won today.”
– Mark Hart (via soldierofthelord)
“Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to...”
– Mother Teresa (Thirsting for God, July 26)
9 Saint Quotes That Will Kick Your Ass
snaps4hollywood:
“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”
-St. Augustine
“To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.”
-St. Thomas Aquinas
“We cannot accuse our sinful nature for...
“I won’t give up…even if the skies get rough.”
– Jason Mraz (via fighterofthegoodfight)
I was scrolling through Tumblr posts from the...
The one and only thing on my bucket list was to grow closer to Christ.
I started to reflect on the past 3 months. I am not the same person I was when summer started. I did grow closer to Christ, just not in the way I had expected.
I expected that I would go from where I was and build upon that foundation. However, this summer I fell - I made mistakes, I sinned, I fell into temptation… to...
“When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.”
– Andrea Gibson (via -witheverything)
Another update on my friend, Priya, the bone...
An update from the little girl’s father, Dillon:
Lily is up and walking, slight fever, but all in all good spirits. She is definitely feeling the aftermath of the transplant. Shes been in and out of bed. She keeps walking up to Priya to see her if her new “real” life sister is up yet. Besides the femoral nerve palsy thing, Priya is hitting 102 fever. They have her on an IV and...
Update on my friend who is a bone marrow donor -...
The First results came in and Lily and I are leukocyte matches. But sadly her body rejected my leukocyte cells. Lily is still sleeping, and having a blood transfusion.The Doctors explained that her body may be rejecting all of my cells and will never accept them or that her immune system was not suppressed enough. So they are going to further weakener her immune system and we’re going to...
“‘There are all kinds of courage,’ said Dumbledore, smiling. ‘It takes a great...”
– I just realized today how much more meaningful this quote is when you remember Dumbledore’s backstory. For years, Albus remained at Gellert Grindelwald’s side even as Grindelwald became more and more corrupt, simply because he was his friend. He turned a blind eye to the immorality of Gellert’s...
“God has called us to this simplicity of love. I do not feel called to what many...”
– Heidi Baker, Compelled by Love
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
mikeclevenger:
“My heart’s one desire is to be holy in love. I long for the purifying fire of His love to consume every hidden motive within me. As the heart is purified, we can see Him with greater and greater clarity. I want to be fully possessed by His Holy Spirit until I am completely overshadowed by God. I want to be utterly overtaken. My prayer is for all of us to stay hidden inside God’s...
URGENT PRAYER REQUEST
A friend of mine from high school, is going to undergo bone marrow harvesting to potentially save a little girl with leukemia.
Here is the letter she received from the girl’s mother:
Priya,
To the Doctors here at Tripler you are donor 45826. To our family you are our last chance and you have become our angel. Two weeks ago Lily had begun to show symptoms of renal failure...
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to...”
