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The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

by Nadia Hashimi (Goodreads Author)

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Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)

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The Fifth Woman (Kurt Wallander, #6)

by Henning Mankell

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“What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've written a script for a play of our lives that runs about a month ahead of actual life; if reality varies from what we've created in our minds we disengage or pout.”
― Holly Sprink, Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness

tags: acceptance, christianity, mindfulness, pouting, reality

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“May we be faithful to observe our own lives, be humble enough to admit our sins, and resilient enough to let God realign us toward his purposes.”
― Holly Sprink, Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness

tags: faithful, god, humble, purpose, resilient

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“God simply told us to think of Jesus as Immanuel, which means 'God with us.' How amazing that one of the main ways God wants us to think about the person of Jesus is as 'a sharing, an embrace of life by Life, a total identification of God with the object of his love.”
― Holly Sprink, Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness

tags: god, god-with-us, immanuel, incarnation, jesus

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“We don't treat Jesus like a puppy, soaking in his excitement over our coming home and then leading him back to stay in the laundry room when we go out to begin another day.”
― Holly Sprink, Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness

tags: focus, jesus, mindfulness, noticing, presence

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“The immense distance between God and humanity is the indispensable backdrop to a Christian idea of revelation. To reduce God to the level of human thought and human imagination, so that we can comprehend God, is to lose a sense of the very thing that distinguishes God as God.”
― A.J. Conyers

tags: christianity, god, meditation, mindfulness, revelation

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