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Newness often makes us fearful, including the newness which God brings us, the newness which God asks of us. We are like the Apostles in the Gospel: often we would prefer to hold on to our own security, to stand in front of a tomb, to think about someone who has died, someone who ultimately lives on only as a memory, like the great historical figures from the past. We are afraid of God’s surprises; we are afraid of God’s surprises! He always surprises us!



Dear brothers and sisters, let us not be closed to the newness that God wants to bring into our lives! Are we often weary, disheartened and sad? Do we feel weighed down by our sins? Do we think that we won’t be able to cope? Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive if only we open ourselves to him.

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Out here she didn’t have to worry about emails and what her brother would eat at the next meal. Out here she could be utterly selfish and write and eat cereal.
Stay warm, remember to have some semblance of human. Shave, pluck, jump up and down. Don’t let strange men into the house.

Out here she didn’t have to worry about emails and what her brother would eat at the next meal. Out here she could be utterly selfish and write and eat cereal.

Stay warm, remember to have some semblance of human. Shave, pluck, jump up and down. Don’t let strange men into the house.

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Sara Bareilles

“Let The Rain”

I wish I were pretty
I wish I were brave
If I owned this city
Then I’d make it behave

And if I were fearless
Then I’d speak my truth
And the world would hear this
That’s what I wish I’d do, yeah

If my hands could hold them you’d see
I’d take all these secrets in me
And I’d move and mold them to be
Something I’d set free

I want to darken in the skies
Open the floodgates up
I want to change my mind
I want to be enough
I want the water in my eyes
I want to cry until the end of time

I want to let the rain come down
Make a brand new ground
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Make a brand new ground
Let the rain come down tonight

I hold on to worry so tight
It’s safe in here right next to my heart
Who now shouts at the top of her voice
Let me go, let me out, this is not my choice

And I always felt it before
That the world was filled with much more
Than the drowning soul I’ve learned to be
I just need the rain to remind me

"Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven (via rainydaysandblankets)