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If we only focus on feeling misunderstood or disrespected, we will miss the opportunity to be repaired in the ways we deserve.

The cleanup of this rift has been an ongoing journey and recognizing my deep fear of not belonging, and not being fought for by the people I’ve perceived to be the closest to me

The long-term community the disciples would form would need a broader basis than shared hurt. There would also be an element of shared joy.

I am personally convinced that the Jesus a lot of people are walking away from is not Jesus at all, as the only Jesus I recognize now is an oppressed, persecuted, brown skinned man who was trampled by an empire, not a mascot who was invented for one. But nothing about what you see on your road can be dictated, for this is very much your path, and the path must be trusted, and you must be trusted to walk it.

“Sometimes for vocational reasons or out of familial or social pressure, people haven’t left the building, but their hearts checked out a long time ago, and they’ve been walking the road for years without ever leaving the city limits. I don’t think there is a more solitary, lonely feeling than that.”

“It was a life of constant examination and fear. As it is for most people, that sort of rigid devotional intensity was not sustainable.”

Despair, experienced alone, is the deepest and darkest hell. Shared, grief and longing build a holy cathedral, a place for the spirit to dwell.

But we always have a choice. Always. We always have the choice to say, I'm just not ready. It is a great risk to drop all these protective layers, to burn down what we've relied on. It is a great risk to trust something other than our trying. Burn it down. You do not have to be afraid of being yourself anymore. I need to burn down everything in the way of my being honest. Honesty is the way home.

I felt caught as a child, which was a by-product of divorce. A child just feels caught. Because they are imprinted with a desire for wholeness, and that wholeness is fractured, they are left a bit confused. And so a skin, a tough skin, gets layered over the child's openness, and the message is, "Don't you dare get caught again. Getting caught is a lose-lose. Don't ever be between again."

“Really tuning in to the pain and embracing the struggle is more effective because it dissipates it’s impact” Dean Karnazes

Putting this aside for now because the book I have jumps from page 108 to 189 skipping about 2.5 chapters.

Heaven is not a location. We are in heaven when we live in an inner realization of the ever expanding good that exists throughout the cosmos.

“My goal had been to lose weight. In the end, I ended up finding myself.”

Research has shown that 50 of a person's overall happiness is genetic. Every person has a genetic "set point" of happiness that is inborn and does not change, regardless of circumstances or behaviors.

"But after hearing so many fire and brimstone sermons, I eventually emerged from those early years with this vague sense that God was angry with me, that I was always failing to measure up to some standard of behavior and decorum. So I kept on getting saved and baptized and walking the aisles to rededicate my life to the Lord."

Quitting on page 50 because this book is silly. Especially after this statement "many parents who would never allow their children to attend public school will send them to dance classes. They will refuse to have them influenced by secular humanism in school, but will expose them to unbiblical ideas of beauty in dance class."

Can't remember who recommended this book. I knew it was going to be super Christian but wow. It's not very long so let's see if I can finish it.

I'm quitting at page 191.

Now I understand what the ingredient natural flavors is.

Trying to read this for Sunday school but it's a bit smart for me.

Love the section on Musical Immaturity. Finally someone who gets me!

"But what I really wanted that morning, and EVERY MORNING, was not just a clean counter, but some order. Clean counters bring me calm. Clean closets bring me calm. Clean bedrooms bring me calm. Because they represent order."

Written by Christopher's boss. We'll see what kind of author he is.

I cheated and looked at the last page to see how it ends. I couldn't wait anymore! Why is it the girl always picks the guy I don't pick?

For example, new studies suggest that exposure to nature may reduce the symptoms of ADHD and that it can improve all children's cognitive abilites and resistance to negative stresses and depression.

I received this book for free at the TX state fair so why not read it. So far I'm liking the mystery.

This book is so good I can't put it down! I'm emotionally involved!