5 Truths.

The following is cold hard evidence of 3 things I know to be true:
1. I love quotes
2. I love you. and blogstalking/facebook stalking you
3. I steal things.

Guilty on all accounts. Here is a collection, incomplete, but a fair representation of things I've picked up here and there. You might be surprised to find that I have plagarized from your profile/blog/status update a time or two. and because I never forget anything (truth # 4) and because I also give credit where credit is due (truth # 5), names are added when quotes were borrowed. Facebook me some of your own if you read this and have any to add, I'd love that.

Thanks for every single little thing.
love, Jen

People never notice anything. Salinger_ Catcher in the Rye (Rupa) :)

"Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be."

"We are not meant to live merely by what is natural. We need to learn to live by the supernatural. Ordinary fare will not fill the emptiness in our hearts. Bread will not suffice. We need extraordinary fare. We need manna. How else will we learn to eat it, if we are never hungry?" _ Elisabeth Elliot (Annie Murphree's profile, I do believe)
The State killing someone for a heinous, atrocious, cruel act is antithetical and stupid. It is childish. It is false justice. It lets the criminal off too easily, and is not a useful punishment _ it is a blind human attempt to enact divine punishment. As far as humans go, ancient, old testament "eye_for_an_eye" was replaced by something a lot... Read more stronger, a lot more powerful, and a lot more real__Grace. Sentencing someone to Live with their own dark conscious, allows for the depth of an act to sink in, and possibly have the effect of leading that person back out of the dark place that they are in, and back towards a relationship with the loving Creator of life itself. Anything less is a complete failure on our part, and is admitting the defeat of a light that we are told in inextinguishable. But that's just what I think...doesn't mean I'm "right"...but what seems "right" to me... David Carl Waggoner, via Jessica Bocangel’s status update on facebook.

When it comes down to it, once you become dissatisfied with your own behavior, only two things will give you the wisdom and motivation to make necessary changes: time and prayer." ~Dawn Eden, The Thrill of the Chaste. (Becca Parsley's status update)

""When you told me to pray,"" Jose would remember later, ""it was incredibly earnest. You said prayer was like having this intense, profound longing that you just had to be with. That you put the longing in the hands of God, in a certain way. That it was important to be receptive to the unfulfilled, and not fill it, or deny it."" take this bread. sara miles. (reminds me of Sean)

What pray, do you know about dragonflies?
Or what happens when they die?
Yes, what happens when the gazelle expires in the desert after running for miles to escape the jackal?
What happens when a flower withers?
When the lamb enters its death agony under the butcher's knife? What do you know about it? What if, at that moment,there were high festival?
What if pain turned into joy? What if death became life, more life, all life?
This is the only mystery I have left you with in creation; why do you take it so amiss?
It was certainly a cruel thing for human beings to have crucified Jesus and you might well reproach God for having stayed silent over the tragedy of Calvary, and yet...Have you experienced the resurrection?
Have you made the transit from the visible to the invisible, to see what happens?
Certainly, if everything ended with death whether for the dragonfly or for the grass of the field or for my son Jesus, you would be right, but... It isn't like that.
Life goes on. It not only goes on, it develops, grows, matures, Life is eternal and you haven't seen the best of it: the kingdom
__from "And God Saw That It Was Good" by Carlo Carretto

""……the measure of civilization is not whether it puts a man on the moon, but rather how it treats its poor."" —— Frederik Herzog, Justice Church, 1980.

The truth must dazzle gradually lest every man be blind.
_ Emily Dickinson (Via Meg)

Lord, the night is strange with unquietness——what our hearts seek is hidden by shifting cloud and the memory of what we had hoped to forget. Have mercy, holiest God, on our unbelief. We would not have it so, but our chilled hands slip on the icy rail, and our numb feet cannot find the ladder’’s rungs.You are fed up with words, and I don't blame you. I am nauseated by them sometimes. I am also, to tell the truth, nauseated by ideals and with causes. This sounds like heresy, but I think you will understand what I mean. It is so easy to get engrossed with ideas and slogans and myths that in the end one is left holding the bag, empty, with no trace of meaning left in it. And then the temptation is to yell louder than ever in order to make the meaning be there again by magic.
__ Thomas Merton

Sometimes I just have to pray for the strength to conquer myself. (someone, don't remember but how true).

"It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one..Karl_A_Menninger

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word "darkness" on the walls of his cell" C.S. Lewis

""I think if you were to cut us open what would fall out would not be our intestines and our pancreas. I think that what would fall out would be words, the words that we hold layered and packed in our bodies, emotions just one right on top of each other, the words that actually meet air in our lifetime are few, compared to the un_lipped and un_tongued words we hold inside."" _ Emily Dickinson (Cory)

People change and forget to tell each other. ~Lillian Hellman

"The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars etc., is sure to be noticed.~Soren Kierkegaard
(Jackie Johnson)

" It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth." __CS Lewis

The hand of day opens Three clouds And these few words _ Octavio Paz, (Via Cara)

Forgive the conjunctions and double infinitives and the not said. I don't know really what I wanted to say but want you to have a few words from me this Wednesday morning. We are like two animals escaping to dark warm holes and live our pains alone. _ Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans (Cara)

He is nearer than we might imagine. Sage, in an email, summer of 2008.

Andrew Largeman: I was a little boy and somebody made a shitty latch. That's what I think. That's what I think about the whole thing, OK? And I'm not gonna take those drugs anymore, because they have left me completely fucking numb. I have felt so fucking numb to everything I have experienced in my life, OK?And for that... for that I'm here to forgive you. You've always said that all you wanted was for us to have whatever it is we wanted, right? Well, maybe, what Mom wanted more then anything is for it to all be over, and for me, what I want more then anything in the world, is for it to be OK with you for me to feel something again, even if it's pain.
Andrew Largeman, From Garden State, Murphy's profile. love this.

Cry freedom cry From a crowd 10,000 wide Hope laid upon hope That this crowd will not subside Let this flag burn to dust And a new a fair design be raised While we wait head in hands Hands in prayer _DMB_ Via Murphy's profile.

"'Thou shall love the Lord they God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind' That is the first and greatest commandment. The problem is, how to love God? We are all too conscious of the hardness of our own hearts and despite the religious writers telling us that feeling is not as necessary, we do want to know we do feel and love God". Dorothy Day, Via Sage, indirectly.