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Life itself was in Him, and this life gives light to everyone. The light shines through the darkness and the darkness can never extinguish it.
John 1:4-5

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You are a person. You are not only your pain. You are not only wounds and scars. You are also better things. You are possibility and promise, hope and healing, daydreams, favourite books and favourite songs. You are the people that you love and the people who love you. You are hope and change and things worth fighting for. This is all your story, and your story isn’t over.
Jamie Tworkowski (via alovefromabove)

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So beautiful. Source: pirateshipsandrabbitholes.tumblr.com pirateshipsandrabbitholes: I was watching the movie “Hook” today (I am a huge fan of J.M. Barrie’s “Peter and Wendy”). The scene where one of the lost boys examined Peter’s face to see if he was really Peter reminded me of how I sometimes forget who I am in Christ. I get caught up in different things and the big fat lies the enemy keeps on planting in my head, and so I feel lost and far away from Jesus. Eventually, I get tired and I start looking for Him again. But as it turns out, He has been beside me all along. I feel His hands wiping the dust off of my face and then he says, just like the lost boy to Peter, “There you are!”  The idea of Jesus’ hands on my face somehow reminded me of Clement Chen’s song “In Your Arms”. It’s amazing how God is always happy to see us come back to him no matter how far we’ve gone; how He still knows our truest selves and sees the best in us beneath all of the filth and scars that have covered our faces. There You Are, 05/14/12 watercolor on paper

So beautiful. Source: pirateshipsandrabbitholes.tumblr.com

pirateshipsandrabbitholes:

I was watching the movie “Hook” today (I am a huge fan of J.M. Barrie’s “Peter and Wendy”). The scene where one of the lost boys examined Peter’s face to see if he was really Peter reminded me of how I sometimes forget who I am in Christ. I get caught up in different things and the big fat lies the enemy keeps on planting in my head, and so I feel lost and far away from Jesus. Eventually, I get tired and I start looking for Him again. But as it turns out, He has been beside me all along. I feel His hands wiping the dust off of my face and then he says, just like the lost boy to Peter, “There you are!” 

The idea of Jesus’ hands on my face somehow reminded me of Clement Chen’s song “In Your Arms”. It’s amazing how God is always happy to see us come back to him no matter how far we’ve gone; how He still knows our truest selves and sees the best in us beneath all of the filth and scars that have covered our faces.
There You Are, 05/14/12
watercolor on paper