Naomi Low

"Just found this new app that tells you which of your family members are racist. It’s called..."

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 07:26:53 -0500

“Just found this new app that tells you which of your family members are racist. It’s called Facebook.”

- @toyns

Via Tweet Picks on Happy Place

"If I had a time machine and could travel to any time imaginable, I know in my heart I’d..."

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 07:26:39 -0500

“If I had a time machine and could travel to any time imaginable, I know in my heart I’d probably just set that thing to lunchtime.”

- @MeSamThorpe

Via Tweet Picks on Happy Place

"The (500) Days of Summer attitude of “He wants you so bad” seems attractive to some women and men,..."

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:47:37 -0500

“The (500) Days of Summer attitude of “He wants you so bad” seems attractive to some women and men, especially younger ones, but I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is. He develops a mildly delusional obsession over a girl onto whom he projects all these fantasies. He thinks she’ll give his life meaning because he doesn’t care about much else going on in his life. A lot of boys and girls think their lives will have meaning if they find a partner who wants nothing else in life but them. That’s not healthy. That’s falling in love with the idea of a person, not the actual person.”

- Jordan Gordon-Levitt (via flawslacedwithgoodintentions)

renloras: sometimes i wonder what happened when clapping was invented

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:43:38 -0500

renloras:

sometimes i wonder what happened when clapping was invented

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Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:27:39 -0400

bluebutterfly141: http://weheartit.com/entry/19869955

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:23:12 -0400

bluebutterfly141:

http://weheartit.com/entry/19869955

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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:54:50 -0400

The Good Samaritan

Sun, 01 May 2011 01:24:00 -0400

A Jewish man is beaten and left for dead on the road. He is ignored by a priest and a Levite. Only a Samaritan, a social outcast among the Jews, stops to help.

Rather than being a feel-good moment in a soap opera or children’s program, the parable ”very subtly exposes our assumptions about the world … and then radically subverts and overturns them”.

In terms of the Good Samaritan, the one who proves himself a good neighbour is ”precisely the one whom we would never have described as good. For Jesus’ listeners, a ‘good Samaritan’ was a sheer contradiction in terms.”

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Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:12:40 -0400

Bystanding, and God's heart in Isaiah 58.

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:40:00 -0400

“All of us are bystanders much of the time. We are witness to the needs of other people… to hunger, and homelessness, and injustice… We witness our government standing by, passively, when other governments kill or torture their own citizens. At least we are potentially witness to all this: We can see and know, if we look, listen, and are willing to know. We are bystanders in that we are not direct perpetrators, and we are not direct victims. Unquestionably, however, we are involved…”

- Ervin Staub, “The Evolution of Bystanders, German Psychoanalysts, and Lessons for Today”, Political Psychology, Vol. 10, Nr, 1, 1989, 50

I reflect, in light of Isaiah 58.

Now that I have seen, I am responsible —

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Mon, 27 Dec 2010 06:07:05 -0500

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Sat, 25 Dec 2010 03:42:12 -0500

"There are a lot of people who need to know Jesus. If our worship is just great youth meetings, nice..."

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:03:36 -0500

“There are a lot of people who need to know Jesus. If our worship is just great youth meetings, nice songs, lots of jumping around and a few CDs, then we’re missing it. Our vertical expression must have a horizontal effect. So, we’ll continue to worship, praise and honor God with heart, soul, mind and strength the best we know how, but the fruit of that must be a generation who are totally committed to reaching the lost and helping those who need help, locally and globally.”

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Sun, 05 Dec 2010 07:39:55 -0500

Roboto Glitter Lens, Pistil Film, No Flash, Taken with...

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:12:36 -0400

Roboto Glitter Lens, Pistil Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

My Room: The AftermathHelga Viking Lens, Pistil Film, No Flash,...

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:23:34 -0400

My Room: The Aftermath

Helga Viking Lens, Pistil Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

I don't always understand... but I trust You

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:26:00 -0400

When I determined to load up on wisdom and examine everything taking place on earth, I realised that if you keep your eyes open day and night without even blinking, you’ll STILL never figure out the meaning of what God is doing on this earth. Search as hard as you like, you’re not going to make sense of it. No matter how smart you are, you won’t get to the bottom of it

- Ecclesiastes 8:16-17

Jason’s unpredictable, he bailed on us tonight We hope you...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:08:21 -0400

Jason’s unpredictable, he bailed on us tonight

We hope you had the time of your life

"I thought I had it all together. I thought I was a great leader, a great role model, a person with..."

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:40:00 -0400

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I thought I had it all together. I thought I was a great leader, a great role model, a person with knowledge and insight and Biblical revelations to share. I thought I had the answer. In fact, I thought I WAS the answer. But then I realized – all of those statements are about ‘I’. And what I am without Christ? Where would I be without His grace? Who could I possibly help in my own strength? I was humbled.

Helping others out of a sense of heroism or superiority only serves to bolster our own egos. When our service is shallow, it’s so easy to believe that we are ‘doing something good for mankind’ and deserve a pat on the back for our efforts. It may gives us a warm, fuzzy feeling, but doesn’t really do much else let alone require us to get out of our comfort zone.

Where does it get uncomfortable for you? How close do you let people get before their problems become inconvenient for you? Maybe you gave money to Haiti. Maybe you have three sponsor kids. Maybe you run a soup kitchen. But maybe God is challenging you to do something harder, something that requires you to give up more of yourself. Often it’s stuff that seems so insignificant – but to you it’s absolutely the hardest thing to do. Like letting a troubled young person stay at your place, and giving them your second pillow. Or hanging out with that really socially awkward person from church, when you see them sitting alone at Starbucks. Sometimes God asks us to do the smallest things – and our obedience in the small things is a sign of how much ‘I’ there really is in our service.

When there is less of me, there is more of Him. And when there is none of me left, that’s when I can truly become His hands and feet, his voice and his ears. The need is great and I may as well realize that it is not convenient to meet other people’s needs before I meet mine. But I can’t live for myself. I want to help people, not to fulfill my own Christian agenda, but because He has helped me and given everything for me. My only true response to that can be total surrender.

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"I’ve talked too much, way too much. I’m ready to shut up and listen."

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:52:10 -0400

“I’ve talked too much, way too much.
I’m ready to shut up and listen.”

- Job 40:5