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“Resting. Sometimes we get so worn out with being useful that we get useless. I’ll ask you what another preacher once asked: are you too exhausted to run and too scared to rest?”

“You’re looking at where I do my best preaching,” he said, slapping the worn wood of the old counter. “Right here is where the rubber hits the road. “Like the Greeks said to Philip, ‘Sir, we would see Christ.’ If they don’t see him behind this counter six days a week, we might as well throw my Sunday preaching out the window. Where is your weekday pulpit, my friend?”

Listening to the audiobook whilst I crochet a blanket