Jamie Moon > Recent Status Updates

“…disability is an open minority that any of us might join at any time, especially as we get older.” p. 162

“Wholeness must embrace our current brokenness, or it is not wholeness, but nostalgia.” p.167

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“The further out of the public square we are pushed…It is as though, out of a fear of being forgotten, we seek to span our growing distance from the center with volume and intensity rather than engaging with intimacy. But if we are not careful, we will not be seen as bearers of good news, but rather as ideological warriors seeking to force a Christian theocracy on a resistant nation.”

I’m thankfully starting to care about the story a little more. At first it was what I’d worried this book would be—written for the screen/fan-base/etc rather than written for the sake of a good story. Hoping it will continue to prove me wrong..

“This is my hope-that there is light at the end of this tunnel of death. That when I have lost everything that makes me who I am, I will still remain, because I am held up by something more solid than my self, than my body, than my very consciousness. I am held up by a love as strong as death (Song of Solomon 8:6).”

p.147

💔 that chapter I just finished, when I realized where all the hints where headed without the author explicitly stating anything, oof.