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Amy Kannel
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read in February 2016
Amy Kannel said:
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This will be the memoir to beat on my reading list this year. I loved it so much I'm considering buying a print copy even though I already own it for Kindle (Kindle editions are so annoying to flip through, and I highlighted a million lines/passages)
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My Friends
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Obviously none of them dares to actually talk about the paintings on the walls, they’re far too frightened of accidentally thinking the wrong thing, someone else needs to think something first so they can know what they’re allowed to love.
“If we’re all a mix of good and bad, then there’s always a chance good might emerge victorious in the end, if we give God enough time to do His work. Patience with broken people and broken things is a manifestation of trust in God.”
― How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
― How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
“Luke could've easily cut this scene between Mary and Elizabeth without disrupting the narrative. But he gives space for us to hear prophetic words from both these women--words that have echoed through the centuries--because Mary and Elizabeth are not only the biological mothers of Jesus and John. They also act as prophetesses in their own right. When it comes to women's unique ability to bear children, it's easy to make one of two mistakes: to overvalue childbearing, as if it's the primary reason why women exist, or to undervalue it, as if creating new life doesn't matter. The full-orbed picture Luke gives us of these two pregnant women helps us not to fall into either trap.”
― Jesus through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord
― Jesus through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord
“True passion and purpose and joy cannot be contained in the shallow pools constructed only for easy and bright. Passion can only be contained in wells deep enough to also hold sorrow and grief. The degree to which you can experience true joy and lasting fulfillment is equal to the degree to which you hold space for darkness and questions.”
― Beginner's Pluck: Build Your Life of Purpose and Impact Now
― Beginner's Pluck: Build Your Life of Purpose and Impact Now
“The gifts are intensifiers of desire for Christ himself in much the same way that fasting is. When you give a gift to Christ like this, it's a way of saying something like this: The joy that I pursue is not the hope of getting rich with things from you. I have not come to you for your things but for yourself. And this desire I now intensify and demonstrate by giving up things in the hope of enjoying you more, not the things. By giving to you what you do not need and what I might enjoy, I am saying more earnestly and more authentically, "You are my treasure, not these things." I think that's what it means to worship God with gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.”
― The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
― The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
“Translated literally, Jesus replies, "I am, the (one) speaking to you" [John 4:26]. This word-for-word translation comes out awkwardly in English, so it's often broken up in our Bibles. But as New Testament scholar Craig Evans observes, Jesus's statement is "emphatic and unusual" in the original Greek as well. Smoothing it out in translation masks the fact that this is the first of Jesus's "I am" statements. ...This is the first time in John that Jesus explicitly declares he's the Messiah. And as he does so, Jesus makes an even more extraordinary claim. Each of Jesus's "I am" statements gives us fresh insight into who he is. At first, his words to the Samaritan woman seem like an exception. But if we look more closely, Jesus is giving us more insight about his identity when he says to the Samaritan woman, "I am, the (one) speaking to you." Jesus claims he's the Messiah and the one true covenant God. But he is also the one who is speaking to this sexually suspect, foreign woman. He could have just said "I am he!" But as we look at Jesus through this woman's eyes, we see him as the long-promised King and everlasting God, who chooses to converse with her.”
― Jesus through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord
― Jesus through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord
Amy’s 2025 Year in Books
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