Rachel

“we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“A Gospel that does not speak to one’s total needs—e.g. need for work, education, food, housing, clothes, clean water, respect, and love—is surely no Gospel.”
― Vernon E. Light, Transforming the Church in Africa:: A New Contextually-Relevant Discipleship Model

“The thought that my dear Heavenly Father is always near, giving me abundantly of all those things, which truly enrich life and make it sweet and beautiful, makes every deprivation seem of little moment compared with the countless blessings I enjoy.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“If sin is loving something more than God, then idolatry is what happens when we apply creativity to this twisted love. Idolatry is the prideful act of adding imagination to our rebellion in order to create something to take God’s place in our lives. Creativity and idolatry come as a package deal. Idolatry is what happens when image bearers become image makers with creation’s images. It’s why creativity so quickly became idolatry’s handmaiden after the fall. In the chaos of cosmic treason, those made in the likeness of God fashion replacement gods in their own shattered likeness through their own misplaced creativity.”
― Thomas J. Terry, Images and Idols: Creativity for the Christian Life