rising from ashes

Keep close to Jesus.

St Paul the Great, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (via seeingdimly)

War and Peace” was admittedly a model, because I think reading that novel is an experience everyone who can read should have at some point in their life. To have a book that is not so short that it’s over in an evening, something that becomes part of your life for a series of days and that you just don’t want to have end. That’s really the goal. And again that’s with the view to pushing back this electronic culture of tiny little bits of information bombarding you and gratifying you every five seconds. It’s a model, and the 19th century novels in general are a model of a different kind of time of thinking and feeling in a somewhat slower but hopefully more intense way.

Jonathan Franzen, author

ATTENTION.

http://ihopesomebodyhears.tumblr.com/post/3608951841

^^THIS GIRL RIGHT HERE JUST POSTED A SUICIDE NOTE AND SHE NEEDS SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HER TO SEE THIS ASAP^^ REBLOG THIS TO GET THE WORD OUT DOES ANYONE KNOW HER??

I’m so disappointed that nobody is reblogging this. Fail. I care about others, and regardless of what her personality is, death is not a choice.

Reblog, you might be the difference, that could save someone.

send prayers and love now!!!

(Source: tylerchristiann.com, via sanfranciscocalypso)

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my name is Kristen: life to the full.

lukeseventeen21:

When I was sixteen, a friend of mine told me that the way to face any situation in life was to “imagine the worst possibility and accept it”, and for the past three years, that is the stance I have taken on every issue. Can I just be frank? That person lied to me. That is an absolutely ridiculous…

(Source: comeupfromthewilderness)

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facing the truth, searching for simplicity.