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Annual re-read for Valentines ❤️🤗

Oof, took me a bit to get into this one but I’m officially hooked

So we learn in the garden that we are capable of both good and evil, and that we often do not know the difference. But more importantly, we learn in the garden that we are loved, that we are clothed and sent away in peace, and that God is waiting for us even east of Eden.

“If our human nature separates us from God, we need more than a bridge. We need to be disembodied, which is a wierd place to end up in a faith that’s based on God becoming human.” 🤯

“But the idea that someone is outside of God? Where would that outside be, exactly? If we go to the depths, God is there; if we rise to the heavens, God is there. Where can we go from God’s presence?”

“What if that part of you were not just tolerated, not just put up with, but actually welcomed, by a holy God who knows it deeply and sees the positive intent behind the behavior it is engaged in?”

“God’s image, his very likeness within every human being as a birthright . . . There’s a God Image in me as a condition of my birth. (That’s probably why the very thing that causes my heart to be drawn to relationship with him—because I’m made for him.)”

“Imagine with me how your life could be different if you really believed that the behaviors you struggle most with, or the feeling of which you are most ashamed, is not actually who you are. ‘What if,’ as Schwartz writes, ‘you totally trusted that those parts were different from your true Self and that you, as that Self, could help them to transform?’”

“We need a secure base, a Parent who meets us with great delight just to be near us, absent of resentment or stifled frustration or disgust. This is a Parent who understands what connection is all about and knows what we need to feel safe and secure in a relationship. Rather than a God who loves us in spite of who we are, we need a God who delights in who we are, in spite of what we’ve done.”

I really shouldn’t be starting another book but here we are 🙈

“We are inherently good.” YES YES YES

“Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.”

“So often we sleepwalk through our lives. Consider how different your experience of the world might be if you engaged in every activity with the attention you might give to landing a plane.”

“We’re not playing to win, we’re playing to play. And ultimately, playing is fun. Perfectionism gets in the way of fun. A more skillful goal might be to find comfort in the process. To make and put out successive works with ease.”

Lizzie is in love!!