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Frederick Buechner said, “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
Shane Claiborne • The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let... See more
Joanna Macy • Go to the Limits of Your Longing | The On Being Project
The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air: Three Godly Discourses
Søren Kierkegaard • 7 highlights
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The friend who leaps ahead is one who’s glimpsed what you’re called to be and is willing to let you be uncomfortable as you wrestle with the call, who loves you enough to let you struggle for your soul but is standing by with a bandage and a map.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.
Donald Miller • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
The story, while quaint, gets at an important truth: too often we look for the Spirit in the extraordinary when God has promised to be present in the ordinary.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Since Christ is our model for personal ministry, we too want to understand people so that we can serve him in their lives. We too must be committed to entering their worlds. We can begin by taking the time to ask good questions and listen well. Our hope is that others would seek us out and share more of their true struggles, so that they may find,
... See morePaul David Tripp • Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands
In situations like this, it is controlled chaos. I wish I had the code to unlock Michael’s mind. But no such code exists. All I can bring to the conversation are my heart and my trust that God wants me in the midst of this chaos. The imprisoned are the poorest of the poor. If the heart of God is to be found anywhere, it is to be found in the hole.