Tabitha
@tabithamcduffee
Writer. Learner. Beauty chaser.
Tabitha
@tabithamcduffee
Writer. Learner. Beauty chaser.
“If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That’s to prevent anyone from confusing God’s incomparable power with us. As it is, there’s not much chance of that. You know for yourselves that we’re not much to look at. We’ve been surrounded and
... See moreWrite about the focus on uncertainty as the opposite of certitude in evangelicalism, and yet Progressive Christians are just as incapable as Conservative ones of continuing a journey with an unpredictable God.
I reminded him of a story from an ancient Chinese Zen master, of the Buddha coming upon some people who had just been robbed while picnicking. They were racing around, enraged, asking him to help them. But Buddha asks, “Who would you rather find, the burglars or yourself?”
Tim nodded, and then said, “The burglars.”
“Same.”
— Anne Lamott, Somehow
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Content: having to say something
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