A cat in an Exceptional Hat.
(a submission from the whimsical Honoria M Harlowe)
how does this not have more notes
FOLLOWERS. FIXIT.
I WANT THIS CAT!!! Or a print of the picture.
(via nouvelle-nouveau)
"Everything You Fear is True" by Stephen Brewster -
“[God] loves you so much He could not for one second allow you to be ordinary because that would be a waste of the amazing gifts He has given you.”
Letter to kids the the first day of school -
it’s cute. Just wanna remember it.
The Gospel is More Than a Story -
“We must return to these stories and events to remember not just the Bible stories, but the story that contains them all—the One Story of God’s incomprehensible, outrageous acts of redemption, the stories of a God gathering a people for his name. Here in its pages appear fierce and unlikely heroes, terrifying battles, pilloried prophets, resistant saints, miraculous healings, a foot-washing King, a bloodied God on a cross, a hollow tomb, the final wrath and glory judgment, and a denouement that ends more miraculously than anything we could imagine: the coming of a new city with open gates and a purified people now called sons and daughters who, needing no other light, will enter and walk by the light of the Lamb.
Not everyone will be there. It is not a safe or simple story. Yet the story is for all of us to hear and to heed. We are invited into these pages, not as editors with red pens in hand, but as supplicants seeking understanding and truth. We are invited to live into this narrative, but not to rewrite it, either to gut it of its offense or to reshape it for short attention spans and better sales.”
-Leslie Leyland Fields
“Discipline is not the enemy of creativity. Discipline is the amplifier of creativity. Be disciplined.” — Jon Acuff
(Source: jonacuff.com)
Jon Acuff: More words of wisdom -
This whole thing hit me pretty hard.
Awesome doesn’t let the crowd determine the size of the performance. Awesome gets up for 2 people or 200. Awesome writes great books even if no one is going to read them. Awesome sweeps store floors when no one is looking.
Awesome can’t help itself.
Awesome has a huge heart. And that’s what it always plays too.
“You God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.” — Psalm 63:1, NIV
“the empty places in our hearts were created to be filled by God alone. The deepest thirst of our soul can only be quenched by Him.” —
Renee Swope
Click here for the full devotional.
“Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders you have done. The things you planned for us no one can recount to you; were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare… I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.” —
Why childlike imagination is the key to mature faith.
“I often wonder if our God-given ability to imagine— what children do naturally—is the discernment tool for apprehending and engaging Godʼs mysterious movements in the world.
When you consider that God made this world out of His imagination and that God created us with the capacity to imagine, doesnʼt it make sense that this faculty, more than any other, might be crucial for our ongoing relationship with God? It makes sense that God gave us imaginations so we could experience all that Heʼs imagined—in a way that only our imaginations can grasp.
Imagination, it seems to me, is the place where the created and the Creator meet, where the material encounters spirit.” -John Van Sloten