project dia: jan 20

project dia: jan 7

seasons

view

technology kills nature

project dia: dec 24 & some recommendations

'spice'

Some musical album suggestions:

-     Gregory Alan Isakov's This Empty Northern Hemisphere

-     She & Him's A Very She & Him Christmas

-     JJ Heller's Deeper

-     Audrey Assad's The House You're Building

-     Iron & Wine's Our Endless Numbered Days

-        Prince Royce's Prince Royce

-      Sara Groves' O Holy Night

project dia: nov 28

nov 28: (photo taken by my friend Cait)
"secret"

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"The gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in human souls and an equally intense resentment, because the truth that it reveals is not palatable or easy to swallow. There is a certain pride in people that causes them to give and give, but to come and accept a gift is another thing. I will give my life to martyrdom; I will dedicate my life to service-I will do anything. But do not humiliate me to the level of the most hell-deserving sinner and tell me that all I have to do is accept the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ...We have to realize that we cannot earn or win anything from God through our own efforts..."  -Oswald Chambers 

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My prayer today for you and me is that we have eyes to see, both our own destitution and hope in Christ. I pray that we would "never begin work till (we) have had a good season with God. The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Word in our life and thoughts." -George Mueller 

project dia: nov 27

A few things that have stopped me lately:

O Thou Who art my quietness, my deep repose,

My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill,

Fair is Thy Pavilion, where I hold me still.

Back let them fall from me, my clamorous foes,

Confusions multiplied;

From crowding things of sense I flee, and in Thee hide.

Until this tyranny be overpast,

Thy hand will hold me fast;

what though the tumult of the storm increase,

Grant to Thy servant strength, O Lord, and bless with peace.

        - My Quietness, Amy Charmichael

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" When I look at your heavens,

 the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

What is man that you are mindful of him,

and the son of man that you care for him? "

-Psalm 8: 3 & 4

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"splash"

project dia: Nov 16

"speak"

I have fallen behind. I have not been still, and have allowed myself to fall once again to a non-rhthym of busyness and avoidance. Of course, I will say "I just have not had time" or " I cannot wait for a break"...but escaping is not the answer. "In quietness and trust is your strength." I need stillness & rest, but I am terrified of it. It probably means a breaking of an unhealthy cycle, of which busyness and productivity may be the hardest to break in me. Once again, I need rescue. Found in one of God's commandments- Sabbath.

project dia: Nov 12

"finally"

Project Dia: Nov 8

Day 8: see

in response to:

"The reason for entering the struggle is a desire for more, a taste of what life and love could be if freed from the dark memories and deep shame...to live significantly less than what one was made to be is as severe a betrayal of the soul as the original abuse." - dan allender

project Dia: Nov 7

day 7: Hazy Up Here

project Dia: Nov 6

Day 6: Fierce with Reality 

Project Dia: Nov 5

Nov 5: Getaway

In response to:

The Rest of God by Mark Buchanan, on 'escaping' as an empty vacuum attempting to satisfy what only rest and sanctified time in God can do. 

Day 4: Series of Circles

in response to:

"A pleasure is full grown when it is remembered...when you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it. But still we know very little about it. What it will be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days til then- that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?" - Hyoit to Ransom, Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

"I need a word beyond 'whoa' that is so powerful and beautiful!! And makes me think about how life is more like a series of circles rather than a line."  - a seer, Caitlyn.

Project Dia: Nov 3

Nov 3: Waves

Project Dia: Nov 2

Day 2: feast 

Project Dia: Nov 1

dia 1: holding common beauty