Kate Ezzell > Recent Status Updates

It was available now on Libby… It’s been less than two years since I listened to it last… Round 2 here we go babyyy

“As long as we eat our bread together, we will have enough even with the smallest amount. Hunger begins only when people desire to keep their own bread for the themselves. That is a strange divine law.”

“A life together under the Word will stay healthy only when it does not form itself into a movement, an order, a society… but instead understands itself as being part of the one, holy, universal, Christian church, sharing through its deeds and suffering in the hardships and struggles and promise of the whole church.”

“When pastors lose faith in a Christian community in which they have been placed and make accusations against it, they had better examine themselves- whether the problem is not their own idealized image, which should be shattered by God… Let them ask for an understanding of… their particular sin, and pray that they may not wrong other Christians. Let [them] make intercession for those charged to their care.”

“To live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.”

“To be willing and accepting means noticing that you are the sky, not the clouds; the ocean, not the waves. It means noticing that you are large enough to contain all of your experiences, just as the sky can contain any cloud and the ocean any wave.”

“I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be a part of that process, all you can do is transform—or at least, distort—yourself through that persistent repetition and make that process apart of your own personality.”

“The shame in her eyes met no answering reproach in his.”

“Finally, as a gift, as a mercy, I remember to pray, ‘Thy will be done,’ and then again I am free and can go to sleep.”

“I began to trust the world again, not to give me what I wanted, for I saw that it could not be trusted to do that, but to give me unforeseen goods and pleasures that I had not thought to want.”
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“But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog’s ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read.”