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Matthew Clanahan; 24-year-old graduate student; Learning Support Specialist and adjunct English instructor at Three Rivers College; Bachelor's of Science in Mass Media/Radio with a minor in math from Southeast Missouri State University; Apple enthusiast; total geek; coffee connoisseur; multiple-instrument musician; drummer for Berlin Airlift; caffeine addict; grammar Nazi; Christ follower; ordinary radical

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This Tumblelog will be the primary place [in addition to Facebook and Twitter] where I share media and web content that I find interesting. I will also share my thoughts on faith, hope, peace and love.



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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

 

who she was: gladly

featherlightheart:

gladly

i’ll take coffee breath and our hands running through each others hair or
knowing
the breaks in silence met by your closing books due to my reaching for you
you’ll meet my morning mood swings with your 
knowledge of not knowing yet 
the same way i’ll always reach for you
in the door way or 
falling back asleep in your lap to your silly sunday movies or
maybe some mornings we wont know
it wont be quiet it’ll be clanking mugs on tables and
angrily pulling closed the shower curtain or
us, fiercly met at the corner of the closet door
both upset, half dressed
but every morning will be met 
by you

It is not scripture that creates hostility to homosexuality, but rather hostility to homosexuals that prompts some Christians to recite a few sentences from Paul and retain passages from an otherwise discarded Old Testament law code. In abolishing slavery and in ordaining women we’ve gone beyond biblical literalism. It’s time we did the same with gays and lesbians. The problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but rather how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of gays and lesbians with the love of Christ. It can’t be done. So instead of harping on what’s ‘natural,’ let’s talk of what’s ‘normal,’ what operates according to the norm. For Christians the norm is Christ’s love. If people can show the tenderness and constancy in caring that honors Christ’s love, what matters their sexual orientation? Shouldn’t a relationship be judged by its inner worth rather than by its outer appearance? When has a monopoly on durable life-warming love been held by legally wed heterosexuals?

 William Sloane Coffin (via gregstevens)

We’re not called to be big. We’re not called to be mass-marketing Jesus. We’re not called to have fancy churches. We’re not called to have high steeples. We’re not called to have soft pews. We’re not called to have great programs… What we’re called to do is love. Love is by definition, sacrificial.

Greg Boyd (via azspot)

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love.

Martin Luther King Jr. (via rachelvirginia)

It is not love in the abstract that counts. Men have loved a cause as they have loved a woman. Men have loved the brotherhood, the workers, the poor, the oppressed—but they have not loved ‘personally.’ It is hard to love. It is the hardest thing in the world, naturally speaking. Have you read Tolstoi’s Resurrection? He tells of political prisoners in a long prison train, enduring chains and persecution for their love of their brothers, ignoring those same brothers on the long trek to Siberia. It is never the brother right next to us, but brothers in the abstract that are easy to love.

Dorothy Day (via shortbreadsh)

‎But love, in its mystery, has its own power. It alone gives us meaning that endures. It alone allows us to embrace and cherish life. Love has the power both to resist in our nature what we know we must resist and to affirm what we know we must affirm.

Chris Hedges, Truthdig, 20/2/2012 (via ohenton)

Love should be like breathing. It should be just a quality in you, wherever you are, with whomsoever you are, or even if you are alone, Love goes on overflowing from you. It is not a question of being in Love with someone, it is a question of being Love.

Osho (via elige)

(Source: yogachocolatelove)

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Vincent van Gogh (via rachelalex)

(Source: silverslipper)

simplesunshinesoul: I wish I owned pancake pillows.

simplesunshinesoul:

I wish I owned pancake pillows.

We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.

Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness (via invisibleforeigner)

Love may not be a manly enough concept for Pastor Mark’s theology, but whether he likes it or not love is the dominant attribute of God. This isn’t something “hippies” have decided themselves, it is the gospel proclaimed by none other than Jesus of Nazareth.

Zack Hunt (via herefordianyouth)

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

St. Augustine (via herefordianyouth)