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J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books I love so much, is my go-to person when I’m struggling with how to introduce a new and strange world of ideas that has only just emerged from my research.
“first learned about the idea of photography as a form of lectio divina (divine reading) called visio divina, or divine vision, from Christine Valters Paintner. Visio divina involves meditating on an image and asking God to speak to us in that. We can also “read” nature and nature can read (or speak) to us.”
― Be Kind to Yourself: Releasing Frustrations and Embracing Joy
― Be Kind to Yourself: Releasing Frustrations and Embracing Joy
“Making peace with your body is your mighty act of revolution. It is your contribution to a changed planet where we might all live unapologetically in the bodies we have.”
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
“A leader who is invested in knowing, advocating, and striving will have difficulty embracing emergence. The leader who practices unknowing, attending, and surrender will rest more productively into the cycle.”
― How to Lead When You Don't Know Where You're Going: Leading in a Liminal Season
― How to Lead When You Don't Know Where You're Going: Leading in a Liminal Season
“Put simply, a system is self-sustaining if it requires less and less investment of energy over time. Once it’s set in motion, maintaining it becomes easier, then easy, then eventually effortless.”
― Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
― Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
“If you tell me Christian commitment is a kind of thing that has happened to you once and for all like some kind of spiritual plastic surgery, I say go to, go to, you're either pulling the wool over your own eyes or trying to pull it over mine. Every morning you should wake up in your bed and ask yourself: "Can I believe it all again today?" No, better still, don't ask it till after you've read The New York Times, till after you've studied that daily record of the world's brokenness and corruption, which should always stand side by side with your Bible. Then ask yourself if you can believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ again for that particular day. If your answer's always Yes, then you probably don't know what believing means. At least five times out of ten the answer should be No because the No is as important as the Yes, maybe more so. The No is what proves you're human in case you should ever doubt it. And then if some morning the answer happens to be really Yes, it should be a Yes that's choked with confession and tears and. . . great laughter.”
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