May 2013
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“The most difficult thing, it seems, is being able to admit when your love is...”
– http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/when-they-dont-love-you-back/
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April 2013
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“Q. For an e-book developer you certainly seem attached to your physical books....”
– http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/one-on-one-jason-merkoski-and-the-view-of-e-books-from-the-inside/
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my first precepts class is over. at first, i didn’t think it would ever end!
now after the past 12 weeks are over, looking back i am pretty amazed by how much i learned. (and how many donuts i ate since one of the guys owns a shop) this class is hard. it is not a normal bible study where you just show up and talk, or read a chapter and talk, that kind of thing. there is homework…every...
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March 2013
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“I believe the reason why a great many people think God does not love them is...”
– Dwight L. Moody, The Way to God
February 2013
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My phone rang. I groaned, rolling over in my dorm room bed. The blue screen was flashing “matty.” It was 11 pm but I was already in bed because track workouts were killing me.
“Kaaaaaaaaaatie!” he cried into the phone.
“Are you drunk?” I mumbled, grumpy.
“No no! Just excited to talk you,” he said in that same tone. “We are playing ping pong and about to go to a party but I wanted to talk...
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I followed him out to his car parked across and down the street because so many people were at my house.
“Why are you leaving already?” As I asked this I felt my eyes start to water. He was the only one that night that made me cry when he left.
“Joey and Nick want me to go over to the party now,” he said, looking anxious to leave.
“Matt! You want to drink so badly that you are leaving early?” My...
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I fall into your secret world. I can see it plainly as I look into your green eyes. They stare me down in the dark. I can tell you just want to scream the truth openly displayed in your eyes at me, the truth that I try my hardest not to see. I close my eyes so you can’t see what I’m thinking. I don’t want you to enter my world, the world where all I can imagine is reaching out and taking your...
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As we walked out to the trampoline, I hugged myself to keep warm from the cool December breeze. I kicked off my shoes and climbed onto the trampoline. Matt landed a few feet away from me and started jumping.
“Come on lazy bones!” he yelled on the way down from a jump.
I smiled and got up. Immediately I was thrown 5,000 feet into the air. I hate jumping on the trampoline, especially with a boy.
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I rushed home from school. I had to meet Briana and Matt at five to go to the show. I ran into my house, the screen door swinging back and forth until it finally slammed shut. By that time though, I had already bounded up the stairs, yelling “hey!” at my mom and thrown my backpack down. I rummaged through my closet until I found my favorite shirt and shoved it over my head while kicking my...
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“Hey call me after you get off,” Cindy said as I pulled on the tie-dye shirt that was somehow a uniform.
“Okay,” I mumbled. I was not looking forward to six hours of work; four of those with Janna. I grabbed my keys and on the five minute drive listened to Underoath the loudest my lousy speakers would go. The pain I had felt last night had shifted to anger towards Janna.
I grabbed my apron and...
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January 2013
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There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. A Confession was a book like that. In it, Tolstoy related a Russian fable about a man who, being chased by a monster, jumps into a well. As the man is falling down the well, however, he sees there’s a dragon at the bottom, waiting to eat him. Right then, the man notices...
December 2012
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“And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests....”
– Ephesians 6:8
“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you...”
– Ezekiel 36:26-27
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girl in the war—josh ritter
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November 2012
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“The Greek word for faith, also translated belief and trust, means “the...”
– Ron Dunn, Faith Crisis
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what F1 brings with it
From the Restore a Voice website:
“So many are talking about it. Great questions are being asked. What does the Circuit of the Americas FormulaOne race have to do with Human Trafficking? Everything!
The race and all that goes on around it will certainly be fun, exciting, adventurous, and much more. The city of Austin and surrounding communities are pretty stoked about this event,...
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“Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt...”
– 1 Peter 5:6–7
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Ebooks: A Win-Win for Both Publishers and... →
summer’s blog post on us for ROAR
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October 2012
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my future: The Let's-Sell-Our-House-... →
