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We spend a lot of time avoiding uncomfortable conversations and not enough time making an effort to understand the people who live and work around
“We might have a zillion reasons to be jaded about our world, but that is not the kind of person I want to be. I want to be someone who clings to the grace and the gift and the good. Rather than spend my days scanning the digital horizon for a dopamine hit of false comfort, I want to keep my ear tuned to the groanings of my place. I want to stand ready, as Christ’s ambassador in my neighborhood, wearing grace, flesh, and skinny jeans. I want to belong, just as I am, and I want to get better at loving people for every good and puzzling thing they are.”
― The Ministry of Ordinary Places: Waking Up to God's Goodness Around You
― The Ministry of Ordinary Places: Waking Up to God's Goodness Around You
“When confronted with heartbreak, fear, questions, longing, frustrations, and grief, this new life means instead of running to build our cities of protection, we can set out on a different road. This road that may include loneliness, obscurity, hiddenness, and silence. It may be narrow, lined with danger, and filled with darkness at times. But we have a light that will not go out and cannot be turned off. The light of Christ burns bright within us, and wherever we go we will not go alone. This is our promise, our protection, and the place where our voice comes from. When we turn our back on the city, we may find heartache—but we will also find something else.”
― Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World
― Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World
“Second, forgiveness comes easier to people who regularly ask forgiveness themselves. It is mature Christian practice to own our offenses and remain humble enough to apologize when we’ve wounded, intentionally or not. This posture makes a tender people, a safer family with softer edges. All of us love poorly at some point, and infusing our community with ownership and repentance is contagious. Say you’re sorry. Ask forgiveness. This leads not only to stronger relationships but to better humans, and this world needs better humans.”
― Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life
― Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life
“Isaiah 25:8 speaks of God swallowing death forever and wiping away our tears. Only recently did I discover that some translations read, “The Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces.” A more obscure translation shows God wiping tears from “every cheek.” After a lifetime of hearing, God will wipe the tears from every eye; this feels like an important discovery. We aren’t supposed to live dry-eyed. No, we were made to feel pain. It rends us from ourselves. It smudges our view, hides us away.”
― The Ministry of Ordinary Places: Waking Up to God's Goodness Around You
― The Ministry of Ordinary Places: Waking Up to God's Goodness Around You
“As Christ-followers, we are called to be long-haul neighbors committed to authenticity and willing to take some risks. Our vocation is to invest deeply in the lives of those around us, devoted to one another, physically close to each other as we breathe the same air and walk the same blocks. Our purpose is not so mysterious after all. We get to love and be deeply loved right where we’re planted, by whomever happens to be near. We will inevitably encounter brokenness we cannot fix, solve, or understand, and we’ll feel as small, uncertain, and outpaced as we have ever felt. But we’ll find our very lives in this calling, to be among people as Jesus was, and it will change everything.”
― The Ministry of Ordinary Places: Waking Up to God's Goodness Around You
― The Ministry of Ordinary Places: Waking Up to God's Goodness Around You
Anne’s 2025 Year in Books
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418 books
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341 books
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454 books
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163 books
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