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Untitled by Oleg Borodin on Flickr.

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Friends offer all sorts of advice to single women: don’t be too aggressive or too backward, too friendly or too hard-to-get, too intellectual or too dumb, too earthy or too heavenly. Hang around till the bitter end of the singles barbecue – he might want to take you home. Or, don’t go to the singles barbecue at all. Just stay home and read your Bible and pray. It’s terribly confusing. ‘I don’t know how to play the game,’ wrote one frustrated girl. Nobody does. It’s chaos, frustration, confusion, and emotional devastation. It was never meant to be a game, so don’t try to play it. Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you…All is received and made holy by the One to whom it is offered.

- Elisabeth Elliot, "Passon and Purity"

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Hiking in West Virginia, Summer 2017

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(via Secrecy is not Safety)

"Christians are called to be “Repenters,” first to God and then to others. I don’t know about you, but I need to be honest about my weaknesses and I need to know that other people are striving and fighting for holiness with me. That doesn’t mean we make sin bigger than Jesus, of course, but it does mean that we confess sin in order to make Jesus bigger in spite of it!"

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Is there some problem in your life to solve, Some passage seeming full of mystery? God knows, who brings the hidden things to light. He keeps the key. Is there some door closed by the Father’s hand Which widely opened you had hoped to see? Trust God and wait—for when He shuts the door He keeps the key. Is there some earnest prayer unanswered yet, Or answered NOT as you had thought ’twould be? God will make clear His purpose by-and-by. He keeps the key. Have patience with your God, your patient God, All wise, all knowing, no long tarrier He, And of the door of all thy future life He keeps the key. Unfailing comfort, sweet and blessed rest, To know of EVERY door He keeps the key. That He at last when just He sees ’tis best, Will give it Thee. —Anonymous

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On the blog talking about Matthew 14 :) "He does not call us to sit in our self-made safety but to actively obey in faith, believing that He will take care of the rest. Stepping out in faith shows that we trust God will fulfill His promises."

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“The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.”

— Tim Keller from Walking with God through Pain and Suffering (via color-movement)

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"Well, Wendy said something about a shadow, and I..." "Shadow? Whose shadow?" "Peter Pan's."

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"We easily think about the future here as all we have, but if you are in Christ, you have an eternal future with Him where you will be given a new body."

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"The problem is that we make food a god, instead of bringing food under the control of God and conviction of the Holy Spirit.

(via The Morality of Food)

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Loneliness cannot withstand prayer, because at the first word you are acknowledging that God is in the room.

-Chris Priestly

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(via Am I Beautiful?)

"We are not called to look deep inside of ourselves and find beauty and worth. We are called to look at Christ and see His beauty. The more we know Christ, the more He will conform us to His image. That is truly beautiful."

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(via Food, Fitness, & Faith: My Story (Part II))

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Because of the objective glory of the gospel of grace, believers in Christ enjoy not only the legal pronouncement of blamelessness; we get an equally glorious reality, one I believe that is neglected today: we get the very heart of God...the heart of God in Christ is drawn out all the more warmly to us...therefore fear not.

Thomas Goodwin, “The Heart of Christ”