Our Valentine to you Wes Anderson types. If you happen to love this print by Stanley Chow as much as we do, pick one up here.
Did You Know…
…that there’s actually some semblance of order to the chaos that is this Tumblr?
If you never visit my actual page and only see me through the feed, mightn’t know that! So, check out the categories below and go for an adventure through my neurosis, beliefs, rants, nerdy impulses and, of course, love.
Avoiding this is the one benefit of sleeping alone. That and nobody can see your tears of loneliness.
Yes! It’s not like the movies! (awwhahaha re: tears)
This Just In! Intangible God Makes Contact!
Right now I’m imagining God on one of those cartoon deserted islands where there’s only enough mound of land for one person to lie down and roll over twice before slamming into the island’s only palm tree.
I’m imagining that our sins - committed knowingly and unknowingly, and all the times we’ve pushed God away, ignored Him, blamed Him, tried to kill Him - all of that is the sea.
We’ve walled him in. Sometimes on purpose. Sometimes without realizing it.
But this Stranded God has ways of getting messages to us. Messages in bottles or tied to a bird’s foot. Stone thrown in the sea that causes a ripple to float into our backyard tributary hardly noticed but somehow internalized.
I know this matephor doesn’t really hold up for very long. But this image or idea of God being somehow banished, trying to communicate with us with the few avenues we’ve left available to Him has been circling my mind because…well, because I’ve had a rough couple of days. No one knows this. There are things you can’t say. To anyone.
Super Christians will say, “You can say it to God.” But I’ll be real with you - sometimes that feels about as fruitful as saying it into your pillow. This is something I said to God only just yesterday. I said something like “What is the point? You know what I’m thinking. And that’s great and all but there’s nothing tangible coming from your end.” I wasn’t angry or complaining. Just stating what felt like the facts at the time. Yep - me telling God how it is. (How’d you get on that island again, Lord?)
And then this afternoon I got an email from my mother-in-law. She sent me a funny picture (and it was actually funny!) and said I popped into her mind while she was praying today. Then she encouraged me by saying something she’s never said to me before. Something she couldn’t possibly have known I needed desperately to hear from someone. Something that really was a very tangible response to a somewhat intangible emotion that had overcome me recently and that wells up from time to time.
You want to know who God is or where He is or IF He is? That’s Him right there. Whispering. Saying, “I do know what you’re thinking and feeling. And I do know that I can seem intangible. So, let me make myself tangible to you. Let me show you that I’m listening.”
And if you want to know what love is - that’s it right there, too. He cares. He is Love.
This is the first time in a while that I’ve been kind of astounded by that love and, boy, does it feel good.
I don’t usually get too Christiany on this particular blog but I felt like I had to share that. Do with it what you will.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
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| — | Anna Louise Strong (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) |
As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart! You don’t know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. I could have been a world
figure, a power among men, a - a successful wizard, had I not been obstructed by a heart.
figure, a power among men, a - a successful wizard, had I not been obstructed by a heart.
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| — | The Wizard of Oz |
Inspired by the Stanhope of the 19th century, Luke Jerram designed this Viewmaster-like ring for his wife. It contains tiny slides and a lens for projecting photos of the two!
ADORBS.
