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Reading books that the people I love love! This one is from Casey!

So cute and so silly

Some really sobering stories in the last few chapters. Making me tear up between two strangers on the plane.

Trying to make up for the fact that I didn’t read Percy Jackson as a kid

My bed time stories for the past couple weeks!

Good so far!

I’ll be going back to this book for ever and ever

Nothing better than walking to class with this audio book!

The gospel of the kingdom is that no one is beyond beatitude, because the rule of God from the heavens is available to all. Everyone can reach it and it can reach everyone. We respond to the beatitudes by living as if this were so, as it concerns ourselves and others.

“God is round about us in Christ on every hand, with his many sided and all sufficient grace. All we need is to open our hearts.”
Book update inspired by Clayton

Just a little love letter from God via Willard “…out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually
self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core-which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word love.”

So far so good!

Chapter one was all about kingdom stuff. Good stuff to learn about because it’s so ambiguous a lot of times when it’s talked about in churches. But the desire to rule and be a part of a kingdom is, Willard says, innately within us. And we’re all searching after being a part of this kingdom. He also brings up that there are other kingdoms in the world as well.