On Faith
The change got handed up before it got handed down, and only the slow perspective, the long view, lets you see the power that lies in ordinary people, in movements, in campaigns that often are seen as unrealistic, extreme, aiming for the impossible at their inception.
Rebecca Solnit • Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
Reading Obama's Dreams from my Father showed me this. #books
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youtube.comI think the primary work of Jesus Christ was to show us a path of self-giving love that is bigger than our fears, bigger than our jealousies and resentments, and bigger than our worst thoughts and deeds. By love I mean neither neither a milquetoast “kindness” that elides the hard bits nor a graceless “tough-love” program for perfection.
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Rebekah Berndt • We are all cells in God's body
What does it mean to rest in our sorrow?
Meditating, a plan for thoughtfulness, so how do we think upon these things and so you take truth in, but you've got to take that next step then, and ruminate. You’ve gotta go back over and and read again or think in your mind, okay, what does it mean that I must believe this about God, that I might must confess this sin, that I must treat my bro
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His sins were real and obvious, and yet David’s convictions were angled at imaginary wickedness.
Jackie Hill Perry • Upon Waking
Plank in eye syndrome
I discovered later, and I’m still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. One must completely abandon any attempt to make something of oneself, whether it be a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called priestly type!), a righteous man or an unrighteous on
... See moreDietrich Bonhoeffer • Letters Papers From Prison
In retrospect, you will see how clearly and intricately you have been guided. How the right things always arrived at the right time, even when you were absolutely convinced that they would not. How the wrong things left no matter how tightly you gripped, how hard you tried, how much you attempted to force a lesson into a lifetime. How you were drawn to the experiences you most needed, even if they were not the ones you wanted. How life gave you the exact amount of space, and time, you actually required, even if you spent much of it wondering why things were happening too fast, or not quickly enough. How all that seemed so random, so ill-fated, so untimely, wove together into something greater than your conscious mind could have pieced together when you were just standing in the ruins, wondering how you would build the new city. Everything unfamiliar is also uncomfortable — no matter how good it is for us. That is what makes change so scary. Not that we are actually afraid to try new things or have new experiences or press up against the limits of our perception and defy them, but that we grow to prefer a familiar hell over an unfamiliar heaven. When we reestablish our comfort zones around the things we actually want, things start to come together effortlessly. It’s cause-and-effect. It’s inevitability. If we get comfortable with consistency, eventually, the right things align. The idea is born, the love is found, the next step is taken, and the new path has begun. In time, it culminates to becomes the foundation upon which we build our new lives — including all of the pieces of the past we’ve loved, and all the new ones we did not even know we would come to find. 📖: ‘The Life That’s Waiting’ (out 2/26)
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