(Source: theohpioneer, via youngmanandoldsoul)
Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?
—C.S. Lewis (via allthingssoulful)
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(via thestylishtype)
Pride & Stubbornness
Have you ever watched a fly beat itself against the window or mirror? Or a bird that flies into the glass window over and over and over…and thought, “how stupid” or tried to help it (or stood in wait with the fly swatter) but it insists on doing things it’s own way, even if that means killing itself.
Sometimes I wonder if that’s how God feels looking at us. We get ourselves into trouble and insist we know how to get out. We keep trying to do things our own way over and over and over. Never succeeding but continually trying. The never ending cycle.
Now some may agree with this analogy because they image God to be siting in wait with a giant fly swatter ready to smite us because we’re so darn stupid sometimes. But wait, that isn’t true. He’s there offering help, offering the way out, but we turn it down. We’re too stubborn. “I got this!” we say but in our hearts we long for something more. Something more meaningful to life than our own way. Is the pursuit of happiness really wanted life is about? I’m saying it’s not. There’s something so much more, when we will stop being so stubborn and accept the grace being freely given to us?
(via witanddelight)
I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God- it changes me.
—C.S. Lewis (via belongingness)
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I’m always learning…
some things I’ve learned in my 23 years…
Learn to forgive quickly and readily, holding a grudge will only hurt you in the long run.
Learn early on there is always going to be someone who’s better than you at something, instead of being jealous, be happy for them and their talent, jealousy is not becoming.
Learn good communication skills early on in life, I cannot say how helpful this will be in your future. No problem is ever too small or too large to talk through with someone.
Learn to always put others above yourself. One day when we grow up we realize it’s actually not all about us, valuing others higher will not only bring joy to them but to you also. Go ahead, try it.
Learn to be slow to anger, and quick to forgive. Slow to fight, and quick to make amends. Only fools are quick to anger and quarrel.
Learn to never let bitterness take hold of you. Ever.
Learn to value your relationships, friends cannot be bought or sold.
Learn to be trustworthy and reliable. Trust is slow to earn and very quick to loose.
Learn to be confident of yourself and your accomplishments (not arrogant, there is a difference).
and finally: Learn to Love others.
Healing
It’s amazing, but a broken heart does, in fact, heal.
