What waits within

 

Potential

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken

I want to free what waits within me

so that what no one has dared to wish for

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may for once spring clear

without my contriving.

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If this is arrogant, God,forgive me,

but this is what I need to say.

May what I do flow from me like a river,

no forcing and no holding back,

the way it is with children.

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Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,

these deepening tides moving out, returning,

I will sing you as no one ever has,

streaming through widening channels

into the open sea.

– Rilke

 

Rikle’s Book of Hours is an awesome collection of love poems to God that will give you goosebumps. I wanted to share this one with you!

 

Awesome Art

cloud of cups

detail showing closeup of cups

My friend Abby is in town from Boston. She attends MASS Art and introduced me to one of her favorite artists, Tara Donovan, who has now become one of my favorite artists! She uses mundane things like paper plates, tar paper, tape, straws, pencils, and fishing line to create beauty!  Check her installations out!

http://www.acegallery.net/artistmenu.php?Artist=8

“She who kneels before God, can stand before anyone.” – author unknown

Reverence by Manuel Nunez

Last night I had dinner with my dad. He is an amazing man…

Being a woman called to study the things of God, and bent on pursuing justice, it was inevitable I would take up the debate on women as leaders in the church. 

It has been a long conversation between my dad and I, over many dinners and in many car rides.

In doing research for the book he is writing he happened upon this quote and presented it to me yesterday as the nail that finally drove in his decision to believe that yes, women may be lead pastors. 

Thanks dad. For your love, for your devotion to God, to truth, to your family, and to the deep things in life. You are my hero!  You make this saying true, “behind every great woman, there is an even greater man!” 🙂

May my life bring honor to you in your “old age!” haha! JK. wink.

-Tanner

P.S. Check out Manuel Nunez’s work. It’s awesome!