Such a great message on the hard teachings of Jesus by Scot McKnight. Good art.

For my friends @kikimalone, Matt Brock, and the great Helper, wherever you all are.

All is still grace… and still grace.

Slavish attention to the precise and proper words can seduce the author into a kind of posturing with the catastrophic result that he or she loses touch with his broken humanity. The danger of elegant accomplishment besets every artist. What to do? All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially of God smiling at our silliness.
Brennan Manning, The Furious Longing of God.

One more from Other Lives because it’s too good not to share with @amberrunsamuck (and y’all).

My new favorite band. I’m pretty sure that @amberrunsamuck will like Dust Bowl III.

Sometimes, the best we can do is hope for rest… (@amberrunsamuck)

“I feel the band of love, of dreams.” 

The Promised Land is not a permanent gift. It is ‘given,’ but only for a time, and only for so long as it is properly used. It is stated unequivocally, and repeated again and again, that ‘the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is’ (Deuteronomy 10:14). What is given is not by ownership, but a sort of tenancy, the right of habitation and use: ‘The land shall not be sold forever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me’ (Leviticus 25:23).
Wendell Berry, from “The Gift of Good Land.” Essay found in The Art of the Commonplace.

Have you read @Erikalifeartist’s piece in relation to this: http://bit.ly/H4fr2a