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“The mediocre heart is one that sets out to love and then, feeling the exposure, freezes in a desperate attempt at self preservation…Vulnerability is not just essential to love; it is a requirement for knowledge of truth and relationships with God…Receptivity is not passivity - it is a form of action.”

“If the Incarnation is the key to understanding God’s method for revealing himself, then it is precisely in humanity that divinity is encountered…The God-man on that cross is the source of true humanity…To know him in the encounter of faith is to discover the truth of one’s own humanity. Being human is then not something to be surpassed or eliminated-it is the condition of everything.” (74)

Every “letter” is chock full of incredible theology and teaching that I have learned in day to day life but have never been able to put into words. Each letter has successfully taught me more about God, myself, and the world while bringing to fuller realization ideas that have already existed in my mind.