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“Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.”
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
“By His grace, we are the water made wine. We are the dust made flesh made dust made flesh again. We are the whores made brides and the thieves made saints and the killers made apostles. We are the dead made living.
We are His cross.”
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
We are His cross.”
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
“He was pierced and scourged and mocked. He was cursed and raised up on a tree, but He was in that ancient pose of victory.
An old man on a hill, a blind man between two pillars, the God Man on a cross.
Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.
Almost.
It is death by living.
The earth shook. The roof came down. The world changed. The armies fled.
That Moses kept his hands up.”
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
An old man on a hill, a blind man between two pillars, the God Man on a cross.
Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.
Almost.
It is death by living.
The earth shook. The roof came down. The world changed. The armies fled.
That Moses kept his hands up.”
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
“Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.
Almost.
It is death by living.”
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
Almost.
It is death by living.”
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
“Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain-they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter. With an average life expectancy of 78.2 years in the US (subtracting eight hours a day for sleep), I have around 250,00 conscious hours remaining to me in which I could be smiling or scowling, rejoicing in my life, in this race, in this story, or moaning and complaining about my troubles. I can be giving my fingers, my back, my mind, my words, my breaths, to my wife and my children and my neighbors, or I can grasp after the vapor and the vanity for myself, dragging my feet, afraid to die and therefore afraid to live. And, like Adam, I will still die in the end.”
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
Susan’s 2025 Year in Books
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