Sublime

The most profound ways that we encounter God are often in affliction.

They form us into a people who can hold the depths of our sorrow with utter honesty even as we hold to the promises of God.

The light came into the darkness and did ordinary work.

God is trustworthy and what he gives is a blessing, even if we have to squint to see

What I found was that it was the prayers and practices of the church that allowed me to hold to—or rather to be held by—God when little else seemed sturdy, to hold to the Christian story even when I found no satisfying answers.

True joy flows not from privilege or prosperity, but from the deepest springs of grace.

We come to know and trust God’s love more deeply through our own crosses, the things that make us feel we cannot go on, the things that make us tired—the

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practice calls us into a