Melissa

“I love my wife, Kris; I do not love Kris’s words. I encounter Kris through her words, but I am summoned to love her, not her words. Sometimes I say to her, “I love what you say to me,” but that is a form of expression. What I’m really saying is, “I love you, and your words communicate your love for me.”
― Scot McKnight, The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

“We in the Western world are obsessed with our individual relationship with God, which leads us to read the Bible as morsels of blessings and promises and as Rorschach inkblots. But reading the Bible as Story opens up a need so deep we sometimes aren’t aware we need it: oneness with others under the King who rules his Kingdom.”
― Scot McKnight, The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

“Oneness cannot be achieved just between God and self; rather, oneness involves God, self, and others, and the world around us.”
― Scot McKnight, The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

“when our expectations don’t match with what happens, we complicate our lives to no end. Often blaming God, when He’s not to blame. We simply need to realize that life is fluid. Always changing.”
― Susan Sleeman, Cold Harbor #1-3