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“God came into this world in the flesh because from the beginning, God created us as creatures of flesh and proclaimed that we are good. As we celebrate at Christmas, God comes to meet us in the flesh, reminding us that our bodies are temples for the Holy Spirit. Saint Paul professes that our minds, spirits, souls, and bodies remain intact in salvation. Each is constituent of the fullness of our salvation. We are not split apart into good substance and bad but wholly renewed because everything that God creates is good. This truth may never be more evident than on Ash Wednesday when the mark of the cinder cross on our foreheads reminds us that we are dust and to dust we shall return.”
― What Are You Waiting For?
― What Are You Waiting For?
“We open ourselves to the presence of God by waiting intentionally, acknowledging the potential of the present, hoping in what is to come (and that something is, in fact, coming), and surrendering the illusion of control.”
― What Are You Waiting For?
― What Are You Waiting For?
“To believe in the better, to believe in your future, to shout in the midst of a country on fire, to stare down lions, to shake the foundations of the empire, to make meaning in the face of death, to fail, to create, to live, and to love—this is the stuff of hope. It is not an assent to nostalgia or myths or lies. It is the audacious belief that one’s body, one’s story, one’s future does not end in this moment.”
― Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle
― Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle
Tom’s 2025 Year in Books
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