“What if we teach our kids that their true identity and security is found in the fact that they “are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for [them] to do” (Ephesians 2:10)? Each of us is fearfully and wonderfully made, and God has put us in our families, schools, communities, and the world in this time and in this generation for a very specific and unique reason. And instead of finding power or making ourselves feel better by making someone else feel small and insignificant, we will never feel more empowered or confident than when we run our own race to discover the purpose for which God created us.”
― Church of the Small Things: The Million Little Pieces That Make Up a Life
― Church of the Small Things: The Million Little Pieces That Make Up a Life
“I’ve always loved this verse: “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together” (Colossians 1:17). Notice how clear it is that we’re not the ones who are supposed to hold everything together? God is holding it all. He is before it all. He uses the sinners and the weak and the ordinary things that this world views as broken and hopeless. But in him all those things come together and enable us to do things we never dreamed possible.”
― Church of the Small Things: The Million Little Pieces That Make Up a Life
― Church of the Small Things: The Million Little Pieces That Make Up a Life
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