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The Complex Life of a Church Janitor.: The Second is Equally Important.

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:29:17 -0400

The Complex Life of a Church Janitor.: The Second is Equally Important.:

My last post focused on the spiritual disciplines, but I feel the need to reiterate the entire basis of how I attempt to live out my faith.

When asked about the commandments:

Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only…

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zoekat: The beautiful Judy Garland <3

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:26:22 -0400

zoekat:

The beautiful Judy Garland <3

"I sat on a gray stone bench ringed with the ingenue faces of pink and white impatiens and placed my..."

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:24:31 -0400

“I sat on a gray stone bench
ringed with the ingenue faces
of pink and white impatiens
and placed my grief
in the mouth of language,
the only thing that would grieve with me.”

- “When I Am Asked” by Lisel Mueller

God listens to our heart

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:23:06 -0400

simplyorthodox:

God listens, not to our voice, but to our heart. He does not need to be prodded with shouts, since He sees our thoughts, as the Lord proved when He asked, ‘Why do you think evil in your hearts?’ And elsewhere He stated: ‘All the churches shall know that I am He Who searches minds and hearts.’

- Saint Cyprian of Carthage

"But now it is still light and the blackbirds are singing as if their voices are the only scissors..."

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:22:49 -0400

“But now it is still light and the blackbirds are singing
as if their voices are the only scissors left in this world.”

- Jennifer Grotz, from “Poppies”

ruudbaan: Polaroid rules.

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:22:39 -0400

ruudbaan:

Polaroid rules.

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"[I wonder what the first beings thought when the air invaded their lungs.] Until then, they..."

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:42:26 -0400

“[I wonder

what the first
beings thought

when the air
invaded their lungs.]

Until then, they
were lifeless and dumb

but suddenly their
clay came alive

as air danced
lightly on their tongues.”

- Gary Catalano, from “A Meditation on Air”

"[Nothing stays put. The world is a wheel.] All that we know, that we’re made of, is motion."

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:41:35 -0400

“[Nothing stays put. The world is a wheel.]
All that we know, that we’re
made of, is motion.”

- Amy Clampitt, from “Nothing Stays Put” (via journalofanobody)

"Now I know a language so beautiful and lethal My mouth bleeds when I speak it."

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:41:25 -0400

“Now I know a language so beautiful and lethal
My mouth bleeds when I speak it.”

- Gwendolyn MacEwen, from “But”

"i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other..."

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:41:17 -0400

“i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.”

- Lucille Clifton, from “won’t you celebrate with me”

"Imagine that, for a moment."

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:41:01 -0400

“Imagine that, for a moment.”

- Joanne Harris, from Sleep, Pale Sister (thanks to gothtimelord)

"Why am I always the neighbor of those who force you to sing out of fear and say out loud: Life is..."

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:40:45 -0400

“Why am I always the neighbor of those
who force you to sing out of fear
and say out loud: Life is heavier
than the weight of all things.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke, from “The Neighbor” (trans. Edward Snow)

"And whoever listens to me: being there, and not being, lost and found and lost again: Thank you for..."

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:39:13 -0400

“And whoever listens to me: being

there, and not being, lost and found
and lost again: Thank you for the feather on my tongue,

thank you for our argument that ends,
thank you for my deafness, Lord, such fire

from a match you never lit.”

- Ilya Kaminsky, from “Deaf Republic: 14”

"As my father said, it’s funny the way things turn out."

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:38:45 -0400

“As my father said, it’s funny the way things turn out.”

- Jasper Fforde, from Lost in a Good Book (thanks, active-with-the-activists)

"[We remember the dark animals in dreams; they are the wind behind us. They are our history.] I don’t..."

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:38:31 -0400

“[We remember the dark animals in dreams;
they are the wind behind us. They are our history.]
I don’t know where I got this from, we say.”

- Sarah Kortemeier, from “The Dark Constellations”