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Briniloo.com coming soon.
Hi Y’all,
In the coming weeks, this site will retire and all future blogging will occur at briniloo.com. Stay tuned for some surprises. :)
~ Brit
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“When we base our level of worth on what people say, we will experience erratic, unstable lives. When we learn that true identity comes from God, a shift takes place: Circumstances cannot shape us; rather we shape circumstances.”
– Eric Johnson, Momentum
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Uncharted wilderness stretches before you
And you thrive on going where no one has gone
Still it gets lonely when darkness rears
So sing by the fire until the dawnYou travel light and you travel alone
And when you arrive nobody knows
But your Father in heaven, He is glad you can go
Cause those who come after you will need the roadAnd what you have done, others will do
Bigger and better and faster than you
But you canʼt look back, you gotta keep on pressing through
Thereʼs a wilderness pathway and itʼs calling youCalling you, calling you
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Keep pressing onwards, you can’t stay here…
And only your Father goes before you to your own frontier
Youʼre a Pioneer– Rick Pino, “Pioneer”
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Because it’s raining…
Candlelight and stroke of pen
to move the wind closer still
Invite the storm to join me
for another mug of aleFill the air with strings and sounds
that echo whispers in the trees
The claps and shouts and whistling wind
The gentle rain, the soft refrainOh, let it sing, let it sing
Until the night wraps up its song
with the sweetest sound of all,
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“If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
– Steve Jobs
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“We, the unknowing, leading the unwilling, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are qualified to do anything with nothing.”
– Mother Teresa
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The Gift of a Handicap
In 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (MSG), Paul says,
“…I was given the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my limitations. Satan’s angel did his best to get me down; what he in fact did was push me to my knees. No danger then of walking around high and mighty!
At first I didn’t think of it as a gift, and begged God to remove it. Three times I did that, and then he told me, My grace is enough; it’s all you need. My strength comes into its own in your weakness.
Once I heard that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It was a case of Christ’s strength moving in on my weakness. Now I take limitations in stride, and with good cheer, these limitations that cut me down to size-abuse, accidents, opposition, bad breaks. I just let Christ take over! And so the weaker I get, the stronger I become.”
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“You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears…
But the thing is, it’s hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true.”– Merideth Grey, Grey’s Anatomy
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“You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
– C.S. Lewis
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