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“Begin the Song Exactly Where You Are”: a reminder from Malcolm Guite
Happy Thanksgiving Week Everybody! Lots to do, people to see, places to go, and food to eat!
Busy weeks call for faithful labor in God’s strength, not our own. When we work in God strength, he gives us gladness; when we work in our own strength, we give ourselves spiritual heartburn. If anyone needs that reminder this week, it’s me.
Here’s a reminder for me…and all those who, like me, are prone to r
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“To be terrified and yet unafraid seems a great paradox of worship, but when one has tasted it, the notion of an eternity spent terrifyingly unafraid like that is remarkably appetizing.”
― A Small Cup of Light: A Drink in the Desert
― A Small Cup of Light: A Drink in the Desert
“Christ leads us into the wilderness of suffering to engage us there. When he meets us in the wilderness, he is manna, he is water from a broken rock. But he is also the one who wants us to potently feel our lack so that we cling to him. The Apostle Paul expressed as much when he wrote, we are 'sorrowful, yet always rejoicing.' God is the one who leads us into the desert and who makes us feel exposed and frail there. He is the one who turns the wilderness into a womb from which his children are born into gladness. And, like Hagar, we cry, 'You are the God who sees.”
― A Small Cup of Light: A Drink in the Desert
― A Small Cup of Light: A Drink in the Desert
“Yes, we are raw. Yes, we are in the dark belly of a whale. Yes, we ache. Who can be Jesus' "little sunbeam" at such a time? Would Jesus even want such a thing? He is after much more than happiness in our lives. He is after a sustaining joy and he will give us that joy by giving us himself, whether through the small gifts of life that bring us gladness or through the dark night of suffering. Sweeping affliction under the rug of our heart, therefore, is simple denial, an act of cowardice, and act of ungratefulness. We must dare to look it square in the eyes.”
― A Small Cup of Light: A Drink in the Desert
― A Small Cup of Light: A Drink in the Desert
“When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.”
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