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“Simply put, we cannot love what we do not know.
We cannot know what we do not see.
We cannot see anything, really, until we devote ourselves to the lost art of paying attention.”

“But a person’s character can be seen most clearly when the brokenness of the world has invaded his or her peace, when the way he or she thinks things ought to be is interrupted, disrupted, and dismantled.”

“Remember, however, that even though we pray and have faith, the outcome and timing are God’s decisions.”

“You are right now, currently, as we speak, being formed by a complex web of ideas, cultural narratives, reoccurring thoughts, habits, daily rhythms, spending patterns, relationships, family ties, activities, environments, and much more. Just by waking up and going about your life…All Christian formation is counter-formation.”

“No one can dodge people who are prayerfully present”

“This is the gospel: God has drawn near to us in Jesus — us, we who are sinful, broken, wounded, mortal, dying, and incapable of self-saving, with many of us completely uninterested in God or even enemies of God — to draw us into his inner life, to heal us by immersing us within the fold of his Trinitarian loved and then to send us out into the world as agents of his love.”

“Jesus met them empty and left them full”

“Apprenticeship to Jesus is about turning your body into a temple, a place of overlap between heaven and earth—an advance sign of what one day Jesus will do for the entire cosmos, when heaven and earth are at long last reunited as one. This is the single most extraordinary opportunity in the entire universe: to let your body become God’s home. And it’s set before you every single day.”

AMEN & AMEN!!

“We don’t have authority over our husbands. However, we have been given authority “over all the power of the enemy“ (Luke 10:19) and can do great damage to the enemy’s plans when we pray.”

“Satan would love nothing more than for you to become complacent in the essentials for creating intimacy in your marriage.”

“While reading, we can leave our own consciousness, and pass over into the consciousness of another person, another age, another culture.”

“Unresolved conflict is a distraction and stands in the way of the gospel advancing”

“You will never get in a bind believing that God can make good from anything”