Do Not Be Ashamed

Discernment is the best path to wisdom, and experience, the most bitter

lostintheparadiseofmyheart:

So proud of my cousins, Abby and Noah Gundersen. They’re playing a music show with Gotye and The Civil Wars this summer. Wish I lived in Texas so I could see the show.

They’ve come a long way since that first little show in Starbucks :) I’m proud to call them my cousins. And am so incredibly excited to see where God takes them.

(Source: never-surrender15)

"Each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And these things happen - these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And teh vessel starts to crack open in places. And I mean, yeah, once the vessel cracks open, the end becomes inevitable. But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it’s only in that time that we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs. When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out."

—  John Green, Paper Towns

Today is the day…..