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Finally gaining traction on this book and remembering how much I love art and Russ Ramsey explaining it to me.

Not sure if I’ll finish this book - it’s a bit self helpy and not quite the book I thought it would be.

Just finished part I building a case for how we are created with limits and a need for community. Looking forward to part II about healthy dependence.

“Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living “east of Eden,” always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.”

“There are two way to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.”

So fun to re-read this with the kids!

I’m loving this book all over again - so much beauty and deeper meaning throughout. I’m listening to it this time.

We are LOVING this book. So funny!

On learning to read:
“From that time on, the world was her for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.”

"This is the fundamental lie of modernity: that we are our own. Until we see this lie for what it is, until we work to uproot it from our culture and replant a conception of human persons as belonging to God and not ourselves, most of our efforts at improving the world will be glorified Band-Aids."

This has been such a beneficial book to read during the season of Lent.