When you let God take control of everything in your life, He pieces things together in great detail and even takes the extra step to amuse you by the way He’s making things fall into place.
(Source: angelique-le-boursier)
Think about the caterpillar before it becomes a butterfly. When it’s wrapped in its dark cocoon on the backside of some tree, it doesn’t look like it has many options. But inside that cocoon as it becomes a butterfly, it doesn’t just sit and wait for someone to come and let it out. No, that butterfly knows that it has to make a move if it’s going to be set free to fly. In the same way, we have to do something to get out of the confining places we are in. We have to pray, we have to take a step of faith, we have to believe, and we have to press through to victory.
I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God- it changes me.Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.
(Source: ambraaah)
But at their core, artists and scientists are not so different from one another. Both endeavor to solve our greatest mysteries through the power of imagination. The great American playwright Eugene O’Neill described his work as an effort to explain the mysterious forces behind life that shape human destiny. I suspect Einstein could relate.Bill O’Brien, National Endowment for the Arts
From The Imagine Engine! or Art and Science, exploring the creative practices of art and science and where they intersect, sometimes outside the comfort zones of either discipline.
(via jtotheizzoe)
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Who But You (Abraham & Sarah) - Mark Hall, Megan Garrett
I see a star; You see the Milky Way
I see one man counting sand
But you see generations
Who, but You, would ever choose
To dream Your dream in me?
Tell me who, but You, would dare me to
Believe what I can’t see
Who, but You?
We have dreams that may seem too big for us but I guess this is because they don’t come from just ourselves but from Someone much greater.
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
-Albert Einstein
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Journeying through life, I'm learning that there is still so much for me to discover and although what I know and who I am may not amount to much right now, there's one thing I know for certain: a King died for me so that I can live out His story through the challenges I face and the opportunities that will come my way. And yes, I'm still going where there is no path, hoping to leave a trail.
