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“when i believe excess is a blessing, i have forgotten my Jesus, who warned the wealthy but blessed the poor. He wants our hearts, our service, and our willingness to throw our trinkets and dreams on the altar of better, lesser things… we are invited to greater generosity, to a looser grip on our money and our things, to a more expansive belief that everything is the Lord’s…”

“maintaining a safe distance asks nothing of us. it’s so easy to tip into judgement when we view the world through an ‘us-them’ dichotomy. sitting face-to-face, problems loom larger and we have to contend with the fact that there is always more to the story. looking at our neighbor with compassion rather than scorn,
we’ll soon understand why Jesus made such a fuss about it.”