In Matthew, Jesus calls us to be perfect. I have tried and failed many times and consistently live a life below this type of perfection. Fortunately our true perfection no longer comes from our actions, but from the work He accomplished on the cross.

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"[When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don’t just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going.] You keep trying to take over the world."

- Austin Grossman, from Soon I Will Be Invincible (thanks, talesofearth)
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"[The sky was pink and orange, older because the day was over.

There was no wind.] The summer day
cast oak-shaped shadows on the green grass."

- “A Summer Garden” by Louise Glück
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"[I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic.]
But every ocean has a shoreline
and every shoreline has a tide
that is constantly returning
to wake the songbirds in our hands,
to wake the music in our bones,
to place one fearless kiss on the mouth of that brave river
that has to run through the center of our hearts
to find its way home."

- “Birthday” by Andrea Gibson (via the-final-sentence)

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