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Over all of us is the image of the wounded God, the God who breaks open and bleeds with us.
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
― Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
― Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
“Sometimes the desire to be lost again, as long ago, comes over me like a vapor. With growth into adulthood, responsibilities claimed me, so many heavy coats. I didn’t choose them, I don’t fault them, but it took time to reject them. Now in the spring I kneel, I put my face into the packets of violets, the dampness, the freshness, the sense of ever-ness. Something is wrong, I know it, if I don’t keep my attention on eternity. May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. May I stay forever in the stream. May I look down upon the windflower and the bull thistle and the coreopsis with the greatest respect.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance.”
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“You're not scared. You're just grieving. No one tells you humans that your sorrow feels like fear.”
― The Deal of a Lifetime
― The Deal of a Lifetime
“So walk across the street, or drive across town, or fly across the country, but don’t let really intimate loving friendships become the last item on a long to-do list. Good friendships are like breakfast. You think you’re too busy to eat breakfast, but then you find yourself exhausted and cranky halfway through the day, and discover that your attempt to save time totally backfired. In the same way, you can try to go it alone because you don’t have time or because your house is too messy to have people over, or because making new friends is like the very worst parts of dating. But halfway through a hard day or a hard week, you’ll realize in a flash that you’re breathtakingly lonely, and that the Christmas cards aren’t much company.”
― Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
― Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
Kelsee’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kelsee’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
504 books
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25 friends
1,226 books
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163 friends
118 books
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377 books
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877 books
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212 friends
810 books
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147 friends
863 books
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46 friends
970 books
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38 friends
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Art, Biography, Book Club, Business, Children's, Christian, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Self help, and Spirituality
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