I dusted off my copy of Dallas Willard‘s The Divine Conspiracy, and have started reading the book once more. He writes about the hidden life in God, a life of meaning open to everyone – a way that seems closed to many: “The major problem with the invitation now is precisely over-familiarity. Familiarity breeds unfamiliarity, [...]
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Don’t worry. It’s not an exhaustive list. We do not have space enough or time. You ever read something and feel like everything you know or knew just doesn’t cut it? I’m motivated by a line from one of the best book’s I’ve read, during an arc in the narrative that cut through my flesh [...]
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the last few days i’ve been impressed and pock marked by more of Oswald Chambers’ insight. he’s accomplished his regular violence against my soul. some highlights from the last few days: Peter did not wait for God. He predicted in his own mind where the test would come, and it came where he did not [...]
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I’ve said it before and I’ll most likely say it again. When my heart needs a kick-start, when my hope needs a pick me up, I like to read Chesterton. Here’s some reasons why: If our life is ever really as beautiful as a fairy tale, we shall have to remember that all the beauty [...]
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Enjoyed reading the following quotes from Debrah Joyner Johnson’s Write to Ignite: What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful “sub-creator.” He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is “true”: It accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, [...]
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Thomas Merton wrote, ‘There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.’ There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. It is so self-conscious, so apparently moral, simply to step aside from [...]
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How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as they are in their sunny selfishness and their virile indifference! You would begin to be interested in them, because they [...]
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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it– because it [...]
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Interview: Bryan + Katie Torwalt, "Here on Earth"
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Mephiboseth, a short story by Andrew Kooman
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Chasing Tradition: Herbert's "Altar"
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