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“The God I follow has things to say about envy and self-serving motivations. He offers a road that doesn’t indulge peering at our neighbors fields and fuming with our supposed to lack. For you and I trying to get home, to become real human beings to gather our thrown away stories, this is a radical step in the right direction…. There are all sorts of accumulated hurt in us….”

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“We replace stories with heavy sighs, realistic goals, and insurance policies.”

“Loss is ungainly, and won’t easily smarten up to make the rest of your life appear cool and groovy.”

“Knowing myths and how they align with our own experience can help us emerge from loss not bitter but creative.”

PSA - do not read if you’d like to maintain the allusion you’re not idolatrous.

this is the perfect book to come home to if you’re drowning in the monotony of passing patterns and systems of play

“the most sacred stories circled around the tale of a dying and resurrected king.”

“when we reach for a myth to help recover our own stories … in place of isolation we now have the camaraderie of being worked within a bigger story.”

“Idolaters think idols bring greater life and prosperity, but they would only inherit death and emptiness, which is to be come like the spiritually dead and empty idols. In contrast, there is a true, living God ‘in His holy temple,’ who truly speaks, whose true worshipers should be speechless before Him since He is the true teacher (Hab 2:20)”

really enjoying this

“Many of us are driven by stories we barely understand and rarely investigate.”

Excited for this one.

really intrigued about this one

struggling to stay engaged with this one …