January 2012
8 AM Classes
I hate having to wake up before the sun comes out.
Why do I have to be awake when even mother nature isn’t yet awake??
I wouldn’t be complaining as much if I could hear the birds singing when I awake at dawn, but I sadly don’t think any songbirds live around my place.
“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via aestivial)
“What can be explained is not poetry.”
– W.B. Yeats (via bodasdesangre)
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As Long As Life Lasts
9 Dear friends, even though we are talking this way, we really don’t believe it applies to you. We are confident that you are meant for better things, things that come with salvation. 10 For God is not unjust. He will not forget how hard you have worked for him and how you have shown your love to him by caring for other believers, as you still do. 11 Our great desire is that you will...
Our Weaknesses
14 So then, since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe. 15 This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. 16 So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it...
On Authority
14 But you must remain faithful to the things you have been taught. You know they are true, for you know you can trust those who taught you.
— 2 Timothy 3:14, NLT
This reminded me and affirmed the reasoning in C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity about believing things on authority of the people (Jesus, etc.) who taught them.
In the Last Days
1 You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times. 2 For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. 3 They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate...
A Spirit Of
7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
— 2 Timothy 1:7, NLT
December 2011
