February 2010
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I should really love a library like this...
“The atmosphere of the whole house being summerlike, Laurie led the way from room to room, letting Jo stop to examine whatever struck her fancy; and so at last they came to the library, where she clapped her hands and pranced, as she always did when especially delighted. It was lined with books, and there were pictures and statues, and distracting little cabinets full of coins and...
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“After all rich people have about as many worries as poor ones, I think.”
– Jo March (Little Women)
January 2010
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Texas Hunger Initiative: Ending hunger in Texas by... →
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“The anvil is not ashamed of the hammer.”
– Charles H. Spurgeon
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We beat Texas! Yeah, baby! ESPN headlining news... →
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Little Women
When I was younger, I hated the idea of Little Women. I don’t know why… it just really bothered me. When I was supposed to start attending Coram Deo, I was going into seventh grade… Every summer at CDA, you are required to read four books that are already picked out for you. I never minded; some of these books became my favorites of all time. It is when I fell in love with...
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“Bad people know little about badness. They live sheltered lives by always giving...”
– C.S. Lewis
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I pray that from His glorious, unlimited resources He will empower you with inner strength through His Spirit. Then Christ will make His home in your hearts as you trust Him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love is. May you experience the...
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“If 20 million people were infected by a virus that caused anxiety, impulsivity,...”
– B. D. Perry
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“Everything is a miracle; it’s a miracle that one does not dissolve in...”
– Picasso
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You’ve got a smile that takes me to another planet.
How to Forget Fear →
psychotherapy:
Imagine if you could rewrite your mind as quickly as a document on your computer. No more painful memories, no phobias or ingrained fears, just a blank slate where the scars that mark each human life used to be. This may sound like the stuff of Hollywood fantasy but last month it came a step closer to reality at New York University. By manipulating memory a research team managed...
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Currently reading:
Well, school has started, so my currently reading list has changed based on priority. So I figured I would update it.
- Spiritual Leadership- J. Oswald Sanders
- Traveling Mercies- Anne Lamott
- Sensation and Perception- E. Bruce Goldstein
- Applying Principles of Neurodevelopment to Clinical Work with Maltreated and Traumatized Children: The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics- Bruce D....
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“There is many a monster who wears the form of a man; it is better of the two to...”
– Beauty, in Marie Le Prince de Beaumont’s Beauty and the Beast
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“I guess it’s like discovering you’re on the shelf of a pawnshop,...”
– Bill Rankin, according to Anne Lamott in Traveling Mercies
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“I am pretty sure that it is only by experiencing that ocean of sadness in a...”
– Anne Lamott in Traveling Mercies
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“My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I do not die in...”
– Anne Lamott in Traveling Mercies
Convo at Work
Me: Hannah, how old are you?
Hannah: Four...
Me: Wow! 4!?
Hannah: How old is your little boy?
Me: I don't have a little boy.
Hannah: Oh, you have a girl?
Me: No...
Hannah: Do you have a husband?
Me: No...
Hannah: Oh... [All this while she's walking across the beams on her tippy toes]
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“Oh I’ll prove it! I’ll prove it like a theorem!”
– Ross Geller
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“For me, as for most children, I suspect, stories were not just entertainment;...”
– Roberta Bondi
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“Once I spoke the language of the flowers,
Once I understood each word the...”
– Shel Silverstein, “Forgotten Language”
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“The world is so full of a number of things,
I’m sure we should all be as...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson in A Child’s Garden of Verses
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For one of my resolutions, I am memorizing a verse a week… The verse this week:
But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for He called you out of darkness into His wonderful light. - 1 Peter 2:9
I chose this verse this week because I hope that I will...
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Oh Happiness!
dcb did this song at church today, and I shall never grow tired of it… I just love it.
Oh happiness! There’s grace enough for us and the whole human race.
Friend or foe, stranger or kin, all who come begin again. Hard or frail, rich or poor, all in need, need fear no more.
Such a thing to give away…
All regrets, let go forget, there’s something that mends all of it.
...
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“At the cross, You beckon me. You draw me gently to my knees.
And I’m lost...”
– Jeremy Riddle
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“Christian brotherhood is not an ideal that we must realize; it is rather a...”
– Bonhoeffer - Life Together (via leecadden)
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Currently reading:
Spiritual Leadership- J. Oswald Sanders
The Cost of Discipleship- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life Together- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Catcher in the Rye- J. D. Salinger
“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to...”
– C.S. Lewis (via psychotherapy)
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“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats...”
– Sirius Black
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain
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“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” - CS Lewis
I am currently reflecting and contemplating new goals and resolutions for this next year.
I have been thinking about this all week.
Maybe to be more decisive? :)
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“Friends are not primarily absorbed in each other. It is when we are doing things...”
– CS Lewis
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“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What!...”
– CS Lewis
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5. Context
You look back. You look back because that is where the answers lie. You look back to understand the present. From your vantage point the present is unstable, a confusing clamor of competing voices. It is only by casting your mind back to an earlier time, a time when the plans were being drawn up, that the present regains stability. The earlier time was a simpler time. It was a time of blueprints....
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4. Learner
(My roomie and I are both learners. I love asking questions.)
You love to learn. The subject matter that interests you most will be determined by your other themes and experiences, but whatever the subject, you will always be drawn to the process of learning. The process, more than the content or the result, is especially exciting for you. You are energized by the steady and deliberate journey...
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3. Belief
(I have noticed that a lot of people at Baylor have this as one of their strengths.)
If you possess a strong Belief theme, you have certain core values that are enduring. These values vary from one person to another, but ordinarily your belief theme causes you to be family-oriented, altruistic, even spiritual, and to value responsibility and high ethics - both in yourself and others. These core...
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2. Activator
“When can we start?” This is a recurring question in your life. You may concede that analysis has its uses or that debate my occasionally yield some valuable insights, but deep down you know that only action is real. Only action can make things happen. Only action leads to performance. Once a decision is made, you cannot not act. Others may worry that “there are still some things...