one more tree in the garden

bigfunnywords: I’M DONE. EVERYONE GO HOME. THIS WINS. I will...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:31:07 -0400

I’M DONE. EVERYONE GO HOME. THIS WINS.

I will now never not think of this. Thanks a lot, internet.

God's Grandeur

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:02:00 -0400

THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

—Gerard Manley Hopkins, from Poems

lifeisanamazingadventure: Tree of Life

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:08:23 -0400

lifeisanamazingadventure:

Tree of Life

Jeffrey Overstreet, Gradually Dazzled.: Thanks.

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:20:48 -0400

Jeffrey Overstreet, Gradually Dazzled.: Thanks.:

jeffreyoverstreet:

Just dropping in to say a few words of thanks.

My heartfelt thanks to all who DON’T link to video of today’s bombing in Boston. (Why would I want to watch the evil happen? Isn’t watching the video like answering “yes” to the terrorist’s invitation?)

Thanks to those who don’t rush to post…

Depression Too Is A Type Of Fire by TAYLOR MALI - YouTube

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:46:50 -0400

Depression Too Is A Type Of Fire by TAYLOR MALI - YouTube:

For National Poetry Month, but also for Matthew Warren and all those engulfed in the darkness.

National Poetry Month, Day 2: “T.S. Eliot’s Lost...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:01:08 -0400

National Poetry Month, Day 2: “T.S. Eliot’s Lost Hip-Hop Poem” by Jeremy Richards. (Some NSFW language.)

"The Loch Ness Monster's Song"

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:14:22 -0400

"The Loch Ness Monster's Song":

One of my favorite poems, read by the poet. Happy National Poetry Month!

"Take Christmas away, and in biblical terms you lose two chapters at the front of Matthew and Luke,..."

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:12:52 -0400

“Take Christmas away, and in biblical terms you lose two chapters at the front of Matthew and Luke, nothing else. Take Easter away, and you don’t have a New Testament; you don’t have a Christianity; as Paul says, you are still in your sins. We shouldn’t allow the secular world, with its schedules and habits and parareligious events, its cute Easter bunnies, to blow us off course. This is our greatest day. We should put the flags out.”

- N.T. Wright, Surprised By Hope (via bethmaynard)

"From the sermons of Joel Osteen to the epiphanies of “Eat, Pray, Love,” our spiritual oracles still..."

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:38:29 -0400

“From the sermons of Joel Osteen to the epiphanies of “Eat, Pray, Love,” our spiritual oracles still urge us to seek the supernatural, the numinous, the divine. They just dismiss the idea that the divine could possibly want anything for us except for what we already want for ourselves.”

- Ross Douthat (via bethmaynard)

"So go ahead, join the Eucharistic feast of God. Go to church. Preferably one where you’re not..."

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:38:56 -0500

“So go ahead, join the Eucharistic feast of God. Go to church. Preferably one where you’re not being told you’re going to hell — even if you deserve it — and preferably one that doesn’t sing the national anthem at the offertory or demonize Palestinians in a premillennialist sweep. Go to church where God is celebrated as the creator and lord of life, where the good news of God’s overflowing love permeates the congregation’s understanding of itself and the world. It does not matter whether the preacher is a liberal or an evangelical, a Protestant or a Catholic, an orator or a rock-and-roller, educated or uneducated, as long as hearts and minds are opened to the peace that passes all understanding. Go to church and let the beloved world of God slowly transform your life in compassion, mercy, and grace.”

- Charles Marsh, The Beloved Community

fishingboatproceeds: dftbarecords: Check out this new poster...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:37:03 -0500

fishingboatproceeds:

dftbarecords:

Check out this new poster designed by Wendy Wiland! The first 1,000 will be signed by Hank Green himself, so pre-order yours while they’re still available!

Signed by Hank? Who does he think he is? ME?

(This is a beautiful poster and one of my favorite things Hank has ever said. Preorder here.)

Photo

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:35:19 -0500

"Every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be an artist. The..."

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:21:37 -0500

““Every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be an artist. The small family farm is one of the last places-and they are getting rarer everyday-where men and women can answer that call to be an artist, to learn to give love to the work of their hands. In fact from the exercise of this responsibility, this giving of love to the work of the hands, the farmer, the farm, the consumer, and the nation all stand to gain in the most practical ways: They gain the means of life; the goodness of food, and the longevity and dependability of the sources of food, both natural and cultural. The proper answer to the spiritual calling becomes, in turn, the proper fulfillment of physical need.””

- Wendell Berry (via Kellie Haddock) (via sandramccracken)

"The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able..."

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:20:41 -0500

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.”

- David Foster Wallace, This Is Water

harpalyce: goddamnitprotoman: tommyharts: kristalbabich: “It...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:55:11 -0500

harpalyce:

goddamnitprotoman:

tommyharts:

kristalbabich:

“It’s Been An Adventure, Mr. Fredicksen.”

I can’t.

NO

THIS IS REALLY NOT OK

CANNOT. HANDLE.

mshedden: (via Photo by chadbrooks • Instagram)

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:01:03 -0500

mshedden:

(via Photo by chadbrooks • Instagram)

fishingboatproceeds: other-wordly: pronunciation |...

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:35:51 -0500

fishingboatproceeds:

other-wordly:

pronunciation | ‘bal-ter

Oh that’s what it’s called when music causes me to move.

There’s a word for this!

typographicverses: “And we know that all things work together...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:35:08 -0500

typographicverses:

“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose” - Romans 8:28. Designed by Gedy Rivera (@gedyrivera).

For those who love and are called.

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Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:31:53 -0500

"It’s telling that Dostoyevsky, himself a Christian, offered no direct theological rebuttal to his..."

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 01:24:17 -0500

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It’s telling that Dostoyevsky, himself a Christian, offered no direct theological rebuttal to his character’s speech. The counterpoint to Ivan in “The Brothers Karamazov” is supplied by other characters’ examples of Christian love transcending suffering, not by a rhetorical justification of God’s goodness.

In this, the Russian novelist was being true to the spirit of the New Testament, which likewise seeks to establish God’s goodness through a narrative rather than an argument, a revelation of his solidarity with human struggle rather than a philosophical proof of his benevolence.

In the same way, the only thing that my religious tradition has to offer to the bereaved of Newtown today — besides an appropriately respectful witness to their awful sorrow — is a version of that story, and the realism about suffering that it contains.

That realism may be hard to see at Christmastime, when the sentimental side of faith owns the cultural stage. But the Christmas story isn’t just the manger and the shepherds and the baby Jesus, meek and mild.

The rage of Herod is there as well, and the slaughtered innocents of Bethlehem, and the myrrh that prepares bodies for the grave. The cross looms behind the stable — the shadow of violence, agony and death.

In the leafless hills of western Connecticut, this is the only Christmas spirit that could possibly matter now.

”

- Loss of the Innocents - NYTimes.com (via ayjay)