Ryan Ching October 30, 2015 at 06:02PM

"Forgiveness, requires that I go into the past, that I relive histories again and again until I am able to release all wrongs wrought by the frail humanity of others. The act of forgiveness, true Christ-based forgiveness, is an extension of love; it is seeing my accuser as a human, as one who acted from his own broken understanding of the world, who just did the best he knew how. Forgiveness, true godward forgiveness, is the extension of unmitigated grace, the adoption of the prayerful hope that our enemies might receive no suffering from their imputation of suffering; it is the hope that they find a better hope." ― Seth Haines #trueforgiveness

Ryan Ching October 25, 2015 at 09:54PM

"Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we arrive safely because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess, we have lost our thirst for the waters of life, having fallen in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity, and in our efforts to build a new earth, we have allowed our vision of the new heaven to dim. Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas, where storms will show your mastery, where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. We ask you to push back the horizon of our hopes, and to push us into the future in strength, courage, hope, and love. This we ask in the name of our Captain, who is Jesus Christ.” ― Francis Drake #disturbusLord #wellspring

Ryan Ching October 24, 2015 at 07:06AM

When someone says that "life gets in the way," is it really life that got in the way? Did we really not know what was going to happen? Really? Did we not know what happens when we have unprotected sex when we're not ready to have a child? Or how were we to know the ramifications of taking that job that's demoralizing and sucks every bit of life and and joy and good from us? Sure, there are things that we have no or little control over, but a lot of times I hear this, it's for things we've done, results from choices we've made. And yet we blame 'life' or God or karma or someone else rather than the real cause—ourselves. 'Life' gets in the way, really, when we choose to abdicate our responsibilities, when we fall into patterns or into the conventions of society and culture, when we fail to take ownership of what we should know and how we should act. If you're walking blindly in life when you have eyes to see (but chose not to open them) and you bump into someone or hit a wall or go off a cliff, it is your fault. Open your eyes, see what's around you — see what's ahead of you. You have the freedom to choose, but understand that it's your choices, not 'life,' that's getting in the way of what God's wanting you to do. #lifehappens #ordoesit #creaturesofhabit #openyoureyes #ownership #ownit

Ryan Ching October 23, 2015 at 05:25AM

"When we listen to words, not to shoot them down, but to open us up — Grace can walk in. When we listen to words not to indict them but to inform us, they can form us into a cup of understanding. This quenches the world’s parched places... When grace walks in — that doesn’t mean that Truth needs to walk out. It can mean that they both sit down and listen and learn and linger long enough to love no matter what." — Ann Voskamp #listen #thestoriesweliveby #beopen #graceandtrutharefriends #whatislove

Ryan Ching October 22, 2015 at 06:07AM

"There is always something left to love...Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning — because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so! When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.” #araisininthesun #taghawaii #thestroiesweliveby #whatislove #measurehimright

Ryan Ching October 18, 2015 at 02:43AM

Could it be that love was not meant To simply make us happy & content— To tide us over 'til its terms & conditions Were terminally met, But, truly, to shake us from our self centered ways, To inspire us to see past our mortal bounds, So to move us from death to life And not the other way around? #whatislove #dyingtolove #reallove

Ryan Ching October 02, 2015 at 01:15AM

Low-key, chill time at #parkingspot. Good night and good conversation and hoping for more rich, quality time with one another. #goodnight #tps #cometogether