“God’s great love and purposes for us are all worked out in messes in our kitchens and backyards, in storms and sins, blue skies, the daily work and dreams of our common lives. God works with us as we are and not as we should be or think we should be.”
― Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology
― Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology
“There's a hunger beyond food that's expressed in food, and that's why feeding is always a kind of miracle.”
― Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
― Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
“when wealth is your god, weapons are your sacrament, and your own children are your sacrifice—”
― The Girl with the Dove Tattoo
― The Girl with the Dove Tattoo
“We are on a great journey, through darkness and dawn, across time, though sometimes I fear that our journey is about to end. We must not succumb to fear or avarice; we must continue to embrace life, seek light, and gather in the charity of night. This is what God wants from us and for us. Mirrors of the past shine with the hue of unborn days, just as stars glitter in the dark night to light our way.”
― Rumours of Glory: A Memoir
― Rumours of Glory: A Memoir
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