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An Example of Why It Is Difficult for ENFPs to Make Decisions

Fi: My favorite color is blue.

Ne: NO BUT WAIT what about green?

Si: Yeah, green reminds me of Robin Hood, and he reminds me of archery.

Te: I think archery is the best sport therefore it is.

Ne: But what if there’s a better sport? I wonder how many sports there are that I don’t know about…

Fi: But archery feels right.

Ne: Yeah, but there still could be something better.

Si: What about baseball? Remember all of the good memories you have from those baseball games you went to?

Ne: Mhm.

Fi: Baseball is now your favorite sport.

Te: I now think baseball is the best sport therefore it is.

Ne: Guyyyys, I can’t just choose one. I don’t want to. I feel like I’m missing out on something…

Fi: At least you know your favorite food, right?

Si: Donuts.

Ne: But I also love chocolate chip cookies…

Fi: Would you please just make up your mind?

Ne: Why?

Fi: Because we need to know what is right and what is not.

Te: Yes, and what I think is right.

Si: Wait a second, weren’t we talking about colors? How did we even get here?

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oops i haven’t been on tumblr in almost 7 months.

oops, indeed. 

i’m not sure why i stopped using tumblr. i just did one day. that’s about it.

not much has happened in the past few months. i’ve been interning at my church, working at plato’s closet, i’ve dyed my hair a bunch of different colors, went to portland twice to see cameron’s family, i’ve been doing some photography, drinking lots of coffee...

oh. and this happened.

we’re getting married on october 28! ah!

i’ll post more eventually. but for now, it’s 4:44am, i’m sick, wide awake, and not sure what to do with myself. i suppose i’ll browse around here for a while. 

such an exciting post, i know. ;)

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Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Ephesians 4:29 (via calm-mysoul)

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this is exactly what you think it is

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A year ago today Cameron and I were supposed to go on a picnic to Zilker for our first date. Instead it torrentially down poured and we had homemade pizza and watched Rapture Palooza. So to celebrate our "dateaversary" we made the same homemade pizza and enjoyed the night at Zilker. ❤️ I kinda love him a whole lot. (at Zilker Park)

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BAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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if anyone is around MA/CT/RI or anywhere near these states please keep an eye out for my friend’s sister!! Her name is Annie Phan and she’s about 5'4-5'5. She was last seen at Logan Airport in Boston

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I am not a Proverbs 31woman. I am not a collection of characteristics of someone who has walked this earth just as humanly as I have. I am not a woman who will strive to be the image of one woman in one chapter in the entirety of the bible. I will not be measured up to, or compared to Proverbs 31 and what it entails, no matter how deeply other woman idolise it and live by it. I am not called to solely live up to it, fulfil it or prescribe to it, and I am certainly not going to allow my heart to obsess over ‘the perfect wife list’ or ‘the ideal woman list’ that western society has muddied up Proverbs 31 to be. Whilst it’s a wonderful example of wisdom and a kind heart with hands committed to serve, give and love - it is not the heart beat of who I am or who I will long to become - nor who I was created to be. Will I fear the Lord? Of course. Will I aim to speak with wisdom, and live a life of strength and dignity? Yes. Will I open my arms to those in need? Forever. Will I provide for my household? Always. But I am not a Proverbs 31 woman… I am a Jesus woman, a Godly woman. I am not a woman who designs her life around the sketching and outline of a noble wife. I am not her and she is not me, and I will not build steps of my identity out of a longing to sculpt myself into her likeness because social media has fluffed it up to be what everyone wants. I am a woman who aims to reflect the image of her Maker, and waft the essence of her Saviour. I am a woman who longs to encompass the entirety of His character - of which the wife of noble character in Proverbs 31 only speaks mildly, timidly and reservedly of. I am not a Proverbs 31 woman, in the same way that I am not Esther, Ruth, Rahab, Mary, Martha, Deborah or Elizabeth. I will not hold back, step down, pull up or restrict my character to a small list of wholesome capabilities, descriptions and definitions, because He has not called me to idolise a piece of His word, He has called me to consume every page of it. He has raised me up to be a woman with a heart that beats for what His beats for, not forever longing to complete a check list of requirements. I am not a Proverbs 31 woman - I am ever so much more…

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one of the greatest scenes in tv history. and all in 60 seconds.

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omg you know what sucks? when you’re about to shower and you notice your hair looks cute. goodbye cute hair, i must get clean.

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God allows you to wander into the deepest valley, and right before you are too far gone, he speaks — "You are loved, you are worthy, you are mine. Let's go home."

(via trvdition)