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Pretty cool coming from the GOAT!

merit, not for the sake of perfection, not for the sake of virtue, not for the sake of sanctity, but for You alone. Amen. (Thomas Merton)

Lord, give me humility in which alone is rest, and deliver me from pride which is the heaviest of burdens. Possess my whole heart and soul with the simplicity of love. Occupy my whole life with the one thought and the one desire of love, that I may love not for the sake of

Silence is a time to rest in God. Lean into God, trusting that being with him in silence will loosen your rootedness in the world and plant you by streams of living water. It can form your life even if it doesn't solve your life. (Adele Calhoun)

Most people think they will grow to be more like Jesus through trying hard rather than training hard. (Richard Foster)

Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. (Henri J. M. Nouwen)

Be the reason I feel loved when I catch my own reflection or feel my own self-loathing fluttering in my stomach. Calm my mind, lift my spirit, make this dumb, ordinary day my prayer of thanks. Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie

God, be bread. Be water. Be laundry. Be the coffee cup in my hands and the reason to calm down in traffic. Be the gentler tone in my insistence today that people pick up after themselves for once.

For this ordinary day Lord, here I am. How strange it is, that some days feel like hurricanes and others like glassy seas and others like nothing much at all. Today is a cosmic shrug.

When in ignorance I have nothing to say, I must remain silent. From Spirituality for Ministry by Urban T. Holmes Ill

he or she is a means, not an end. It is important for me not to think too highly of myself in this relationship, but to stand in awe of what God is doing in the life of the other person. Often this requires me to get out of the way.

🧵 To be a spiritual friend one must have detachment, discretion, and discernment, with all that prepares for those gifts. Spiritual companionship is a gentle art, demanding a willingness to listen as if one had a third ear attuned to the inner self.

I’ve spent so much time trying know ABOUT God that I’ve missed out knowing Him.

What I love about the Pentecostal tradition is the belief that if we create space (esp in our gatherings) God will meet us in power. What I love about the Contemplative tradition is the belief that if we create space (esp interior space) God will meet us in stillness.

I was thinking this morning how we’re all disciples of someone. Of some entity. Some doctrine. I was thinking how quickly you can tell these days which news networks we’re discipled by. I’m not just talking about one in particular. Take your pick. We the people have become we the parrots. No nuance. No critical thinking. No inconvenient listening. No attempts to understand other views. Just parrots. We have chosen the narrow way alright. Just not the narrow way Jesus meant. His narrow way opens wide our heart’s capacity to love (even our enemies!) and our mind’s capacity to consider others as more important than ourselves. If we hate more people and spew more derision than we did 5 years ago, we may believe in Jesus but make no mistake. We are not his disciples.

@BethMooreLPM I miss this tradition. I grew in a episcopal church and they had a time of celebration like that. It was also a time that anyone who had a reason of thanksgiving could come to the altar.

One of many things I love at our church is being invited to the front if it’s the week of our birthday or wedding anniversary & the congregation speaks a prayer over us. Our anniversary falls on Christmas week when we do a different order of service so we went up today. 44 years.

@PrestonSprinkle 1. Sensible shoes (all 4 books of the series) by Sharon Garlough Brown 2. Sacred Rhythms by Ruth Haley Barton 3. Anxious people by Fredrick Backman

What is the best books you read in 2022, including: (1) non-fiction, non-religious, (2) non-fiction, religious, and (3) fiction.