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Is there a song in your life that somehow breathes Truth over you in nearly every stage of your life - continually illuminated and redefined to ground and deepen you - well, "Painting Pictures of Egypt" by Sara Groves is mine... “I don’t want to leave here I don’t want to stay It feels like [...]

“Aragorn: What do you fear milady? Eowyn: A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire. Aragorn: You are the daughter of kings, a shield maiden…I do not think that will be Your fate.” -Lord of the Rings

“We stutter and we stammer 'til You say us, a symphony of chaos 'til You play us, phrases on the pages of unknown 'til You read us into poetry and prose. We are kept and we are captive 'til You free us, vaguely unimagined 'til You dream us, aimlessly unguided 'til You lead us home...Passed [...]

Well it turns out the daily quotes did not prove as successful as I had hoped : ) But I am now back in the swing of things and just allowing blog posts to come as they come - there may be times I need to establish a routine of daily writing - but one [...]

"Then the time came when the risk it took to remain in a bud was far greater than the risk it took to blossom." -Anais Nin

“There exists some point at which I can meet God in a real and experiential contact with His infinite actuality.  This is the ‘place’ of God, His sanctuary, it is the point where my contingent being depends upon His love.  Within myself is a metaphorical apex of existence at which I am held in being [...]

"I prepared excitedly for my departure, as if this journey had a mysterious significance. I had decided to change my mode of life, 'til now,' I told myself, 'you have only seen the shadow and been well content with it; now, I am going to lead you into the substance.'" -Nikos Kazantzakis

“Holiness has most often been revealed to me in the exquisite pun of the first syllable, in holes – in not enough help, in brokenness, mess.  High holy places, with ethereal sounds and stained glass, can massage my illusion of holiness, but in holes and lostness I can pick up the light of small ordinary [...]

Excerpts from Madeline L'Engle's "Walking on Water" "The only way we can brush against the hem of the Lord...is to have the courage, the faith, to abandon control." "The deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence." "It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark [...]