Friday, 09 December 2016
beautiful
If people spent half the time they spend on making their appearance beautiful on making their minds beautiful places, we would live in a different world entirely
Friday, 25 November 2016
Black Friday
A wonderful reminder that I already have all that I need and the thing I really want is just to want less.
Thursday, 24 November 2016
pain
pain has an evolutionary effect:
our only choice is to respond
yet still we seek out comfort, stagnation and mediocrity
and wonder where God is when it hurts
when He couldn't be more present
our only choice is to respond
yet still we seek out comfort, stagnation and mediocrity
and wonder where God is when it hurts
when He couldn't be more present
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
learning
when you know what's there
you don't need to prove what's there
you can just learn to trust it
the language exists even if you haven't learnt to speak it yet
you don't need to prove what's there
you can just learn to trust it
the language exists even if you haven't learnt to speak it yet
Monday, 21 November 2016
Sunday, 13 November 2016
Rational
When you're living the upside down life it's the contradictions that seem to make the most sense. And then you realise that less can be more and up can be down. Not that this can be the case, but that this is also what is most reasonable.
Audible
When there is clarity
You don't need volume
When you've heard the words
You can enjoy the beat
You don't need volume
When you've heard the words
You can enjoy the beat
Looking within
The undiscovered is closer than it appears and more compelling than fear's dissuasion.
not knowing is also knowing
Sometimes it possible to know more about something from the experience of not having had it.
Like the same way that rainfall proves evaporation.
Like the same way that rainfall proves evaporation.
Faith
I don't want to believe what I was going to believe anyway. Then I am happening to faith rather than it happening to me.
Lightness
Floating is almost unrecognizable when you've been on the ocean floor sucking air through a straw
Sunday, 09 October 2016
Monday, 29 August 2016
shadowlands
when the darkness overwhelms you
but takes only what it can
it also gives you the gift of knowing that even in darkness you can breathe
you realise that shadows were never your enemy
your enemy was believing you were in the sunshine
but takes only what it can
it also gives you the gift of knowing that even in darkness you can breathe
you realise that shadows were never your enemy
your enemy was believing you were in the sunshine
Sunday, 28 August 2016
Space to breathe
Space to breathe
Reasons to feel
He let the words loose
Not knowing if they would find a place to rest
The hurt hurt
Even when trying not to
The wounded remember more than anticipate
Lonely, he let the words go. The memory more alive than a tomorrow not yet lived
A moment he would grasp if only he could. The torment to reach for something he could not hold
The desire not to is surpassed by the willingness to want to
Saturday, 27 August 2016
Rain
It's like it's rainy in my soul
And though I can't see past the clouds
The wetness nourishes the deepest and thirstiest parts of me
Friday, 26 August 2016
Cracks
We all have them
Let's share them
Let's meet each other in our pain
I want your rain cloud to rain on me
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Touching
Sometimes not touching is the most felt
Sometimes the silence is the loudest noise
Sometimes the contradictions make the most sense
Saturday, 23 July 2016
Change
I sometimes wonder who I would be if I had learned to demand compassion from myself the same way I have learnt to demand perfection.
Friday, 08 July 2016
life is not a problem. life is a game.
When I was a lot younger than I am now, I used to often head over to my neighbor's house to play. We mostly played outside, but there was a time when they had the best best gaming console in the neighborhood, and we spent many an hour in front of their TV. The most popular game at the time was a game called Adventure Island. I remember many fun hours trying collect all the dinosaurs and knowing which egg to choose at the end of every stage.
I recently found a way to download these games onto my mac and I didn't hesitate to do this, hoping to relive the same moments and enjoy it again. I had a blast for the first 5 minutes before feeling an incredible urge to play the game perfectly. Perhaps I could download a cheat sheet that would show where all the bonus eggs were, and how to play each stage the best and accumulate the most points.
Playing the game was frustrating because I was not sure that I was playing it the best. And so I wanted to stop playing and start problem-solving. And really, how fun can following a set of instructions be anyway?
Joy diminishes when we stop playing life and start trying to solve life. It is probably a reason I don't write as much as before - because I want the post to be perfect - and achieve a top score with every post. And because I have started to believe that life is not a game, I forget to play like I played when I was a child.
I recently found a way to download these games onto my mac and I didn't hesitate to do this, hoping to relive the same moments and enjoy it again. I had a blast for the first 5 minutes before feeling an incredible urge to play the game perfectly. Perhaps I could download a cheat sheet that would show where all the bonus eggs were, and how to play each stage the best and accumulate the most points.
Playing the game was frustrating because I was not sure that I was playing it the best. And so I wanted to stop playing and start problem-solving. And really, how fun can following a set of instructions be anyway?
Joy diminishes when we stop playing life and start trying to solve life. It is probably a reason I don't write as much as before - because I want the post to be perfect - and achieve a top score with every post. And because I have started to believe that life is not a game, I forget to play like I played when I was a child.
Saturday, 18 June 2016
Saturday, 06 February 2016
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