Today (I think it was today, anyways) I was thinking about the verse where God says, 'I desire mercy more than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.' So I was thinking about mercy vs. sacrifice and why God would desire mercy more; like okay let's get basic here, what's the difference? And I think the answer is that mercy involves relationship. Here's how I broke it down: It's easy enough to determine in my heart what involves a sacrifice and do it and get it done and look back at my sacrifice. However, mercy involves me in a relationship with someone else, because it means I'm having mercy on someone, showing mercy to someone. A sacrifice is independent, whereas mercy is dependent. And a huge thing that God keeps showing me is that our relationship with God is not in a box, nor is it strictly personal between me and God--it's meant to spill out into my relationships with everything, people, events, &c... And really, if I'm pursuing mercy in relationships, I'm going to end up sacrificing myself on the altar. Does that make sense?

lookit how beautiful seattle is!
today i am...
making a quiche
going running
collaging with friends!
working.
loving Jesus!

father's day.

happy father's day.
this is meant to be a bowl of ice cream; unfortunately it doesn't strongly resemble such.
God is good.

currently

reading:
A Passage to India
Black Like Me
Miriam's Kitchen
Walking on Water

listening:
LaRue

copeland.

hi. i'm not very good at this blogging thing am i? i know right.
anyhow. school's ALMOST out. 3-ish weeks? then summer! even tho i'm taking an online class. i'm crossing my fingers/PRAYING it will go alright/be easy-ish.
and FRIENDS. kelsey/michaela in june. i keep forgetting about july. stephanie in august. jessy and bryn everyday for the rest of my life haha i wish. but sometime in there, maybe september. and lindsay! and hopefully becky. sarah. buhe.
but yeah.
need to paint the room. it's truly horrendous. i have this thesis that it's creatively stifling.

likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. for we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
romans 8:26

apparently 'groanings' is not a word.

Ask and examine your heart diligently, and you will find whether it cleaves to God alone or not. If you have a heart that can expect of Him nothing but what is good, especially in want and distress, and that, moreover, renounces and forsakes everything that is not God, then you have the only true God. If, on the contrary, it cleaves to anything else, of which it expects more good and help than of God, and does not take refuge in Him, but in adversity flees from Him, then you have an idol, another god.

Martin Luther

just got annoyed at how wide that video is.
watercoloured this week for my mummy.
made quiche with my sis for mummy's day. pretty yummy and surprisingly easy.
bought new trainers. all motivated to runrunrun.
need to make and keep budget!
longing for foreign lands.

'angels sing for you
mountains melt at the sound of your name
oceans roar for you
and all of creation gives you praise
you are God
high above the earth'