Loss & longing are constants here in the Shadowlands. What we fear most may happen. How then shall we live? We must stain God's shirt with tears & announce how difficult it can feel to be here,but that we still are. ~ joshua luke smith I hope there are Seasons of your life that you … Continue reading Stain God’s Shirt With Tears
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Ideals Complicate Life
Can you promise that I will come back? ~ Bilbo BagginsNo. & if you do, you will not be the same. ~ Gandalf the hobbit: an unexpected journey // film version We've all had those moments when we're smack-dab in the middle of something & we sort of pause & huff in frustration with an … Continue reading Ideals Complicate Life
Weary, Yet Pursuing
Life don't look like when we played outside & it's hard to admit it, but we got played some times.& I can't deny that we all break some times, but we keep holding on.~ joshua luke smith // all my friends There's this bit in Judges where Gideon & his 300 hand-picked men are running … Continue reading Weary, Yet Pursuing
Musings In A Crowded Room
"It is no accident that we were born in the same epoch, & that our stories have twined in this time & in this place. Let us therefore go forth & steward one another's stories."~ Douglas McKelveyfrom "A Liturgy For Leavings" // Every Moment Holy "You will always be part of my tapestry."~ "Tapestry" // … Continue reading Musings In A Crowded Room
Little Lighthouses
"The world is indeed full of peril, & in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, & though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."~ JRR Tolkien // The Fellowship of the Ring Friday afternoon, I was feeling a bit out … Continue reading Little Lighthouses
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