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More concretely, the story illustrates an incarnational lesson: God meets us where we are. While we might be expecting some remarkable, unmistakably divine mode of interaction, God shows up at our flooding house with a canoe, a boat, a helicopter.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Life becomes the Death Mother and we, its ever-needy child.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
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.
Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
The imprisoned, the sick, the lonely who live in the diaspora, the proclaimers of the gospel in heathen lands stand alone. They know that visible community is grace.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Daniel W. Bloesch (Translator) • Life Together
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Jim Putman • Real-Life Discipleship: Building Churches That Make Disciples
An evil little creature that wouldn’t have shown up on any X-rays was living in her chest, rushing through her blood and filling her head with whispers, saying she wasn’t good enough, that she was weak and ugly and would never be anything but broken.