nope. sweet band, but that’s not where the name came from.
the title used to read somewhere brighter instead of no fear in love; it was (and is) more of a reminder of the vibrance in beauty and hope and love and everything wonderful.
i know, i’m a suck haha. i just get lost in things most of the time and i like knowing that there is brightness like that in everything if you look hard enough.
…
The atoms can smell God.
The light can smell God.
(They remember,
they taste the memory of Him)
From the lint
to the elephants
to the dry grey hollow
in the corner of the ceiling,
every sparkling, delicate
speck of creation
is groaning for His return.
I want my life to be that groaning;
of Nature and Loving
twisted together
and soon to be reckoned with
this is so beautiful.
if you want me to do something,
tell me i can’t do it.
ohmagoooodness there are so many things i want to do in a day. i want to read and write and organize my room and paint and workout and spend time with my parents and our foster kids and read a fitness magazine, and then a girly magazine, and do some laundry because i actually don’t mind doing it and then go for coffee with maureen and have a short shift at work because i actually really like serving people and making them smile, and then watch a movie with michael and draw up a rough of my tattoo and go through old letters and laugh at them and find new music and pray while watching the sunset somewhere and … then maybe i’d consider crawling into bed.
you know when you are with someone and you just want them to look at you like that all the time, and when they ask you when they can see you next you just want to scream “all the time, i want to be with you all the time”, and you wonder how it was possible to go years without having that person in your life and yet still finding instances of joy (which by now seem so miniscule in comparison to what you feel when he smiles with those freckles alongside his left eye), and even just a small handful of time spent around that person can leave you smiling with the brightest eyes hours upon hours afterwards, and you just need to thank God all of the time because you find it unbelievable that something, that someone, so good could come out of such a bad part of your life?
yeah.
alexxaraay replied to your post: i bought Rob Bell’s LOVE WINS last week.
I’m planning on buying it soon but was all that controversy false? Or does he line everything up accurately with scripture?
i haven’t had time to read any more of it since yesterday but so far he’s very legit about everything. bell references scripture a lot and brings a lot of things that Jesus said into it as well. again, i haven’t finished it, but i am devouring every word of it and so far i’m really stoked to know that people everywhere are going to be reading it.
that being said, you shouldn’t take my word for it - you should read it for yourself. and definitely don’t just take rob bell’s word for it either - question it, wrestle with it, see if it convicts you, if gets you stoked, if it motivates you to do your part, if it draws you closer to the heart of God.
:)
They don’t teach you this in school. They don’t show you the beauty of existing, they don’t show you the wonder of the earth, they don’t show you the unity that human beings are. They show you who’s better, who’s worse. They show you what they need to show you in order for their system to survive. They don’t show you love.
just started reading it about two hours ago and i’m already half-way through.
if you’re going to read it, don’t stop after the first chapter. you’re going to want to because it won’t sit right with you, but keep reading - he turns all that on its back and sets the record straight.
and can i just say how unbelievably proud i am of the way he explains the reality of heaven?? sigh.
DANG RIGHT. i’m stoked to finish it.
