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Random book from our personal library.
Random book from our personal library.
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“‘I am a Christian,‘ I concluded, ‘because the story of Jesus is still the story I‘m willing to risk being wrong about.‘”
This is a reread, and while it didn‘t feel as profound as the first time I read it, I still found so much to sit with & think through here. Her section about Paul I found especially thought provoking.
Rachel Held Evans no longer being with us & giving her voice and Christ-centered perspective feels so unfair.
There was something inside me, some hopeful, small faltering voice that said, “There‘s room for you.” I don‘t know why, but I trusted that voice.
God made a world of extraordinary beauty, and sometimes the most important thing we can do is slow ourselves down enough to see it, hear it, smell it, taste it, enter into it.
“We love big stories….but sometimes being courageous means less, quieter, stiller, smaller.”
We were made to be the things that He is: forgivers, redeemers, second chance givers, truth tellers, hope bringers.
The food and table and the laughter help to create sacred space, a place to give someone the gift of words. That‘s what some of the best nights are about—sacred space and words of love.
