Mattea Smith- Beachy

“When we take our social role too seriously the first thing we lose is our sense of humor.”
― Amos Smith, Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots

“I adore a God who is beyond words yet contained in the word Jesus.”
― Amos Smith, Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

“Yet, beneath the layers of conditioning there’s the buoyant wonderment of the child, who has never forgotten. That’s why the Gospels say the dominion of heaven belongs to a child (Luke 18:16). The point isn’t to revert to childishness, but to unlearn all the deadening adult scripting that suburbia and the market economy foist upon us. There’s a mystical child in each of us, wide-eyed with rapture at the dance of life; the child who sees the fabric of light that strings everything together.”
― Amos Smith, Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots

“I’m not my brother’s keeper” is the lie infecting our streets and our neighborhoods (Genesis 4:9). This lie alienates us from God and one another.”
― Amos Smith, Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots