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    So be truly glad. 

    There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while. These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold - though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.

    You love him even though you have never seen him. Though you do not see him now, you trust him; and you will rejoice with a glorious, inexpressible joy. The reward for trusting him will be the salvation of your souls. 

    By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires. 

    Season of trials. You and me, Jesus. Here we go. 

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    "Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…"

    Timothy Leary (via jarrodis)

    (Source: pass-the-acid, via amomentaloveadream)

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    humanscaleschools:

    (via School’s Out: Lessons from a Forest Kindergarten — Indiegogo)

    About the film
    No classroom for these kindergarteners. In a small town in Switzerland, children 5 to 7 years of age go to this public kindergarten in the forest every day, no matter what the weatherman says. Filmmakers Lisa Molomot and Rona Richter follow the kindergarten throughout one school year.

    Watch the 3-minute trailer above (in English and Swiss German with English subtitles) to see the magic and surprise.

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    When the government attempts to tell me how students learn best

    icantteachthis:

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    Pops

    I enjoy that I know myself well enough to sense a meltdown coming on.

    I told a friend or two in the last week that I was just waiting for it to happen. They looked at me like I was a bit crazy and said they hoped it wouldn’t happen. 

    I guess ‘meltdown’ has a bad connotation but what I mean by it is just allowing myself to come to a place of enough stillness that my heart can unfold completely. I am able to keep it together when necessary but also to know when it’s time for a bit of a breakdown. I’ve had to come to realize that I have been blessed with strength, but that doesn’t mean I have to always be strong. 

    So I saw it coming, and then tonight it finally hit me. I have been meaning to start bringing stuff home with me these last couple weekends just so to lessen the load when I actually have to move out. However tonight I just thought about packing and it all poured out.

    Good, ugly tears and gasps and plenty of snot. I prayed and cried for awhile then felt like I should talk to my dad. Which is strange, because I love him and talk to him when I’m home, but never would think to call him like this. But tonight it was different. I just wanted my daddy to fix it. I’m scared and I want him to make it better.

    And he did.

    He did by pointing me to Daddy. He didn’t say anything I hadn’t already told myself or heard from other people, but he pointed me to the Lord. He has so much faith in God regarding my life that I can’t help but led to trust in the same way. He has been a rock for me, not because he can protect me from the world, but because he trusts the Lord to protect me. He speaks with such assurance about the future and about who I am that my heart is put at rest. I trust my dad because he trust the Lord. What a blessing. 

    “You are their glorious strength. It pleases you to make us strong. Yes, our protection comes from the Lord, and he, the Holy One of Israel has given us our king.” Psalm 89:17-18

    More to come about my meltdown and graduation and summer and up coming events. But tomorrow I’m going for a hike and cliff jumping so I need me some beauty sleep. 

    God is too, too good to me. 

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    1 month ago

    unlearningschool: Yep.

    unlearningschool:

    Yep.

    (Source: icanread)

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    "We are living in an everyone-is-special-and-there-are-no-losers society. As a result, we are fearful of accomplished people because they can do stuff that we cannot do, and giving them the spotlight would un-level the playing field. We are, as a result, much more comfortable with the famous-for-nothing paradigm, because then, we, the great unexceptional masses, still have shot at celebrity."

    Where Did All the Accomplished People Go? 

    http://www.slate.com/articles/life/doonan/2012/04/kim_kardashian_why_does_she_fascinate_us_we_used_to_revere_scientists_and_surgeons_.2.html

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    My life right now. 

    Walls. Vulnerability. Healing. Light. Freedom. 

    “Sparks will fly as grace collides” 

    More to come on this soon. God’s rockin me like none other. 

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    I’ve been stateside far too long. June can’t come soon enough. 

    I’ve been stateside far too long. June can’t come soon enough. 

    (Source: hrrrthrrr)

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    (Source: curiositycounts, via humanscaleschools)