[A Dreamers Ramblings]

Friday, June 25, 2010

"Growing Pains" By: Phillip Chbeeb

Friday, June 18, 2010

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Michael Grimm, 30 - America's Got Talent 2010, Auditions LA

Every time I watch this I get goosebumps! Love it! Enjoy!

Sunday, June 13, 2010

During Peace Week at Union College this last semester we had a discussion time. There was a bible verse shared that I am pretty sure most Christians know by heart. Matthew 18:20. But I think the crucial verse that should be read along with verse 20 is verse 19: "Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them."

When the verses were being read, a thought popped into my mind, This isn't just about prayer. This is about things that we are passionate about. Peace. Ending modern slavery. Anything that one or more of us are passionate about and get together in God's name for is where God is. This was an astonishing thought for me. I have heard sermon after sermon with verse 20 referenced, but always in association with prayer. Why do we just assume that God is only going to be with us when we pray? He is passionate about what we are passionate about and is there whenever you are brought together to follow our passions.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

(Untitled)

ten owls at the crack of noon

swiveling their heads trying to find a clearer view

but the sun is blinding

and the skyline is blocking the view

their shuttered eyes are unfocused but clear

the ocean reflects the sorrow of the city dwellers

waves rolling as if in anguish

crashing on the shore to show their angst

leaving its inhabitants on the shore

scattered like the toys of a small child

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Note to... whomever...

To whom this may concern (or not),

I am in need (more in want) of a Savannah cat so I can make my neighbors jealous when I walk my new cat on a leash down the street. If you are interested in buying me one, I might love you forever (however this is not a guarantee).

Thank you.

Love, Brigitta

*P.S. I want to name my cat after an inanimate object, let me know what you think would work best. ♥

(Photo: Jason Douglas / Wiki Commons / public domain)

Quotably Quotable

”Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” -Thoreau

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov

"Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God." -Francis Schaeffer

Philippians 3:12 "I do not mean that I am already as God wants me to be. I have not yet reached that goal, but I continue trying to reach it and to make it mine. Christ wants me to do that, which is the reason he made me his."

"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence." -Leopold Stokowski

"If you can find money to kill people, you can find money to help people." -Old British Man via Cedric Wright

" When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary." -Will O'Brien

"A young boy cannot comprehend social status, and this boy is better off than any of us." -August Burns Red

"seasons change. and in those changes you realize that some of the friends you thought were best are in the past. and it makes you realize that best isn't always best, sometimes its just present." - me

"Love is a harsh and dreadful thing to ask of us, but it is the only answer." Dorothy Day

"I think our god isn't God if he fits inside our heads." Clouds- As Cities Burn

"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

sticks and stones may break your bones but words will always teach you... Shihan- "Flashy Words"

These mountains have stood since the dawn of time long to thunder ovation to their creator, but instead stand silent so that man's weak praise might receive God's full attention. -Donald Miller (Lone Cone summit register entry)