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“It would be easy if we all had visions, or if we all believed in those who did. My own feeling is that faith was never meant to be easy.”
As a clergyman I know “faith was never meant to be easy.” If faith is a luxury liner - it is not faith! Faith is a lifeboat, always being swamped by our stormy seas!
“I think the human heart’s a mystery only God knows the answer to.”
― The Devil's Bed
― The Devil's Bed
“However, the uncomfortable truth is that the only way any of us can fully experience the gifts of Sabbath is to stop trying to fit it into our lives. Sabbath isn’t designed to “fit” into our lives; it is designed to take over our lives—in the best way imaginable.”
― The Sabbath Way: Making Room in Your Life for Rest, Connection, and Delight
― The Sabbath Way: Making Room in Your Life for Rest, Connection, and Delight
“General family systems theory says that anytime any one individual in the family is affected by something, it sends a ripple through the whole family.”1 This understanding of the family is seen at the heart of the biblical concept of shalom. Injustice to any part of creation affects the whole. Likewise, there is no peace for the whole unless there is peace for each part. So the wellness of each family member benefits the whole. The same is true across generations.”
― The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
― The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
“our Sabbath practice is perfect. In fact, we’ve failed at Sabbath more than we’ve succeeded. At the same time, we’ve also learned that the Sabbath does not even compute the categories of “failure” and “success”! Instead, the Sabbath invites us to approach life playfully and not take ourselves so seriously. It invites us to come, eager and grateful, week after week, to receive its gifts of abundance, joy, presence, and delight. It invites us to embrace a more radical form of rest.”
― The Sabbath Way: Making Room in Your Life for Rest, Connection, and Delight
― The Sabbath Way: Making Room in Your Life for Rest, Connection, and Delight
“given the deteriorating state of life on earth, natural death places boundaries on the pain of a fallen world. Natural death places boundaries on the despair and futility of life in the context of the Fall. In the same way that the land placed boundaries on the chaos and despair of the deep (see Genesis 1), natural death places boundaries on the despair and futility of life in the context of the Fall. Could it be that in Genesis 3:22–24, God ushered natural death into the world as grace to humanity in a fallen world?”
― The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
― The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
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