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“Because in the end, a heart that longs for fruitfulness is also a heart that will work for it. A heart that hopes for goodness will plant and prune and weight and pray. Such a heart is not blind to the realities of life; it just knows no other way to live. And so understanding the stakes, such a heart stakes a claim anyway. Such a heart hopes in God.”

“I wonder if our search for safety means that we’re not searching for goodness…goodness does not grow in neat clumps or carefully tended rows. It is wild, and you have to work for it. You’ll have to go out in the chilly spring rain and tramp for miles. You’ll have to keep a keen eye…You’ll have to admit what you don’t know, and in humility and patience, learn from others.”

“…God reveals Himself and His will. He doesn’t shout his plans from the mountains so much as he repeats them over and over in low, quiet songs that only makes sense to those who know the significance of them. Like spring in Appalachia, his plans unfold in gentle, persistent ways—sometimes two steps forward and one back, but always in rhythm and always in time.”