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| Did I offer peace... | Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come. Copy | ||
| If fear is the... | If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend. Copy | ||
| I've had a tremendous... | I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real. Copy | ||
| Most Christian leadership is... | Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love. Copy | ||
| Perhaps nothing helps us... | Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy. Copy | ||
| The discipline of gratitude... | The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy. Copy | ||
| The journey from teaching... | The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised. Copy | ||
| To be a Christian... | To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God. Copy | ||
| When we honestly ask... | When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. Copy |
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