becoming an adult is essentially having all your friends in different cities and permanently missing someone
feeling this so strongly as I remember a no I received last year and was devastated about. and it’s not even that I really obeyed—the door was just closed on me and I had no way of opening it. I was sad for a long time and I was confused and in the dark and always crying “WHY” to Him & today I feel like I am on a mountaintop with my Lord, overjoyed as I see how that painful no makes all the sense in the world after all. I am here now in finding out later what God had in mind.
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friends, God is forever faithful. He loves us and knows us best. His pains are never without a purpose. His no’s are for much better yes’s. come to Him with all your feelings, no matter how ugly they may be. step into His light and love. He will make everything beautiful in His time. He will use everything for your good. choose to give thanks that He has the final say because, as you will discover, His say is always infinitely better than whatever it is our human minds can ever, ever conjure.
saablBump, because 1) I’d forgotten I ever wrote this, 2) over a year later, God’s goodness still blows me away. <3
Last night’s cryfest: realizing that I spent so much of my “childhood” trying to get away from my mom’s care and now that I’m older, I cry from so much joy when I feel like I am being babied. (To quote, ‘teenage years are so weird!!! :p’)
I texted her to thank her because I also realized that I am always bursting at the seams with affection and I have no problem expressing it to other people, but with my own family, I hold back. I don’t want to anymore.
In so many ways, I have gained a sense of clarity. I want to expound on how everything feels better now but not in a way that speaks negatively—i.e., spitefully, angrily—of what my period of darkness has been like. I guess I should put that off until I find the words. For now, I want to document that I am walking out of this feeling saved. It’s exhilarating even just to say that out loud so just imagine how I must feel inside. All is so, so, so good. God is STELLAR at being god. There is so much gratitude in my heart that I can’t not exclaim joy and thanks.
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I’m living in the light of my Saviour
I give my life to follow
‘Cause Your love is all I want now ♡
(via thoughtkick)
People who respond to your weird facial expressions with equally weird facial expressions are the best kind of people
You cannot complete me, I cannot complete you.
A relationship cannot make two individuals whole, that is why we must be willing to give over our whole lives, even the life of the one person you love most, to Christ.
If you seek salvation in the arms of another, you will find more brokenness, but if you seek Christ, you will find grace; and that is of monumental importance in any relationship.
I can say you are beautiful, but the reality is that Christ offers more than words; that is greater than anything in this soul can offer.
If I am to love you, I must point you daily to the Father. If I am to care for you, I must be Christ daily. If I am to honor and cherish your heart, I must be willing to surrender it to Christ daily.
No other cornerstone is a relationship, or a single life, more worthy to be built on than the cornerstone of Christ.