Sojourning Hope

“Respond to God by paying attention … at His pace, and in His grace.”
― Chris Pappalardo, Building Spiritual Habits in the Home: Small Steps You Can Take Today

“this verse comes right on the heels of telling us that the woman needs to learn. Why should she learn? Why does it matter that she be educated in the faith? If we can just get past our indignation about how she should learn, it might behoove us to ask why Paul thinks it’s important that she learn at all… And I do think he answers that question: It’s because when Eve was deceived and believed the wrong thing, look at the incredible destruction it caused.”
― Rebekah Merkle, Eve in Exile and the Restoration of Femininity

“Are we approaching the habits (or disciplines or practices) from a posture of grace or from a posture of performance?”
― Chris Pappalardo, Building Spiritual Habits in the Home: Small Steps You Can Take Today

“It’s dangerous to be only a little bit educated, because when you’re only a little bit educated you don’t realize how little your education actually is, and you can get carried away with your own wisdom in much the same way that you can get drunk—except the odd part is that when you get drunk, it’s because you have partaken too much, and in the case of education, the drunkenness comes because you haven’t partaken enough. And what you’re partaking of is the fount of wisdom, which I could describe as the fount of the Muses, since they are the source of knowledge in Greek mythology. That’s the fountain from which it’s important to drink deeply in order to be sober, because if you drink from it just barely you will be drunk—not on wisdom but on your own ignorance. So the fountain of knowledge is like alcohol except in reverse.”
― Rebekah Merkle, Eve in Exile and the Restoration of Femininity