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Adam waits, month by month, for the choked black walnut to die and take his baby brother with it, smothered in his own clown-covered coverlet. But both live, which only proves to Adam that life is trying to say something no one hears.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
In Shaped by God, Max Lucado shows how not being put to use leads to loss of purpose:
Erik Rees • S.H.A.P.E.: Finding and Fulfilling Your Unique Purpose for Life
“He lost no time, but ran with shouts of words, acts, death, life, descent, ascent, all the time shouting for us to return to him.”
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Psalm 34 is one of thanksgiving.
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
When I was a youngster, this was drilled into me by my grandmother. The idea was given to her by a certain slave minister who, on occasion, held secret religious meetings with his fellow slaves. How everything in me quivered with the pulsing tremor of raw energy when, in her recital, she would come to the triumphant climax of the minister: “You—you
... See moreHoward Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
Care and love, for us, are pronounced clearest through service:
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
a teacher sees to the heart of the matter and pulls things through to other things and then more things, connecting what others do not even see as connected—suffering to hope to structures to desire to agents to joy, and all to God in the depths, always in the depths.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
