- Hardship
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
- Grief
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- Nov 07, 2020
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.
- Gospel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020