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Prayer makes me be all too real when I’d rather hide

We can’t make our own hope, we can only receive as a gift

“I want to be someone who so genuinely following Jesus, that I can say piffle at the days to come.”

“I was in it for me and was plagued by worry and fear, while she lived for Christ and others and He gave her peace. (Grandma Marlene) “

O piffle

“ I love your baby soul”

“The spiritual disciplines are just you running to the safest place which to collapse”

“It’s hard to hide when you’re laughing”

Our lives should be a greenhouse full of warmth not a shuttered house of glass.

Heart follows the hand as much as the hand the heart

“A ritualistic life builds little altars for God to meet us”

“Why prioritizes understanding over communion, whereas ‘where’ prioritizes communion over understanding.”

“… a new sense with God, not one built around a felt sense but a growing insist trust that He was there somehow. There in a loving way.”

There is freedom and rest to be found in a love we cannot earn because it is a love we cannot lose.”

“The Master Artist is at work in your life, and with grace in the picture He wastes nothing, not even the choices you are most ashamed of.””

“ ‘in light of grace, we even learn to look at our sinful pasts differently,’ Smith writes. ‘Shame teaches me to look at my past and see something hideous that makes me regret my existence. In grace God looks at my past and sees the sketch of a work of art that He wants to finish painting, to show the world.’”

“‘ sometimes,” Sibbes writes,’ we continue to experience heavy conviction of sin even after conversion so that we can see that we live by mercy’”

In his mercy He wounds

“Grace isn’t about having a second chance; grace is having so many chances that you could use them through all eternity and never come up empty. It’s when you finally realize that the other shoe isn’t going to drop, ever.”

“…unadorned self … deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is to be called to be culturally irrelevant and damned to this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self” (quoting someone else)