Teach With Your Life

Why does the right thing always seem the hardest. It actually gets furiously annoying, to the point where you question whether you are actually doing the right thing anymore. I am in the midst of the biggest life lesson of patience ever - I thank God for it, but I would love something now… however small.

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Print Giveaway!

I will be giving away one 16x20in print of the picture above, Fog Sweeps the City.

I took this in Chicago back in March, and I still love it. All you have to do to enter the drawing is reblog this post! I will not enter likes, and multiple reblogs will be counted as one. I will ship it anywhere, and it will be no cost to you! I actually have the print in my room right now, and it looks absolutely beautiful. This print will also be for sale after the giveaway for $25+shipping.

I will choose a winner on Valentine’s Day.

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I have waited years, and I’ll wait years more.

There is almost always a deeper [unrelated] reason why they are behaving like that. Understand them. Do not fight them.

Choosing to be “real” over being “liked” will not be the safest thing you do today. But it might be the most rewarding. Letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are is one of the most courageous battles that we’ll ever fight.

Sometimes I wonder whether major life decisions I make are right — who doesn’t? Sometimes I wonder if I base my decisions on too much cautious planning; an effort to delay progress. Are my decisions merely perfectionism not wanting to give in to this fallen world. Is fear the centre of all that drives me. Do I know what I’m doing. Am I doing the right thing based on knowledge or do I have a heart.

I would question the morality of my everyday actions, but I would be living a lie - one that most believe not to be. I do not wish to be measured upon the scales of culture. I do not wish for this world to dictate my every whim - yet it is what my heart so desires, treacherously. A desperate hand for love and affection - the only thing I’ve ever wanted.

But, if given to me, what would I find. A lie - another lie. Approval would come, success would follow - only for a moment. For the love from this world is shallow, if anything at all. Leading me through the darkness - forever finding my feet - I would chase myself into the man I swore against.

Only one has unconditional love, that lasts forever - and until that day comes when it shall cease, I will look to Him in everything I do.

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This, and this.

Life is actually insanely nuts right now. Major family issues that should have been sorted years ago (in fact, they should have never happened) are still lingering around.

Amazing lifelong dreams seem to keep getting shut down in my face. I’m so uncertain of what my future is going to be like. With the amount of energy and time I’ve put into carefully planning over the years, it honestly scares me to death that things aren’t going to turn out how I believed they would.

What I do know is that I have a God who works all things together for those who are obedient to his call and his purpose. As we make it our business to obey god, we must also leave God’s business in his capable hands.

It’s time.

Jesus is the greatest example of the servant’s life. Even when abused He responded with humility and met the need of the moment.

John 13 showed me this in a way I’ve never seen before.

John 13:5
[Jesus] poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel he had around him.

The roads and alleys the disciples traveled on their way to the Passover Feast were not paved. Their feet were caked with the mud, dirt, and sweat of their travels. Usually the host of a banquet would provide a slave-equipped with a pitcher of water, a pan, and a towel-at the door of his home to wash the feet of the guests as they arrived. Though no one said anything, all had noticed that there was no servant to wash their feet.

The table in the centre of the room was spread with plates and cups, and the fragrance of roasted lamb and herbs and fresh bread mingled with the odor of their unwashed feet.

So Jesus started to wash the feet of his disciples. Tenderly, he washed the feet of James and John and the others. He even washed the feet of Judas.

Jesus knew that Judas had made arrangements to betray him. But he washed Judas’s feet anyway. He treated Judas kindly and lovingly, even though he knew the terrible thing Judas planned to do to him.

It’s easy to be kind to those who are kind to us. Everybody agrees that treating nice people kindly is a good thing. But kindness is right even when it isn’t easy.

“If you are kind only to your friends,” Jesus said, “how are you different from anyone else? Anybody can do that” (Matthew 5:47). But Jesus said we are to be kind even when it’s hard because kindness is right-whether it’s easy or not.

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