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“I incessantly wallow in the ‘muck and mire’ of the terrible messes that I have made. And when I realize that God has long ago removed all the ‘muck and mire,’ I suddenly understand that the only wallowing that’s going on is in my head.”

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“Of all the ways that God could show up, He showed up by coming down. Therefore, despite the shortness of my reach it is never outside the length of His grasp.”

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“The reason some of us struggle with Christmas is that it refuses to give us what we ‘want’ because it recognizes that doing so sacrifices that which we ‘need.’ And we can be confidently assured that Christmas will never stoop to such an atrocity as this.”

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“Christmas is the beginning of a wonderfully tumultuous story of God coming on tip-toe in order to turn the world on it’s head.”

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“The pit is of my own making. The rescue is of God's love. And the deliverance is my acceptance of both.”

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“At the point that I’ve given up being found by God is the point that I’m most ready to be found by Him.”

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“To be rescued rather painfully points out the fact that we don’t have the resources to rescue ourselves. Thanks to the stubbornness of our stale pride we choose to refuse rescue and embrace anguish, which means that the greatest thing that we need to be rescued from is ourselves.”

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“Frankly, I’m not all that certain that I would die for me, which makes God’s choice to do so both confusing and beautiful.”

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“Have we not considered that the greatest sacrifices imaginable arise from the greatest love conceivable which results in the greatest transformations possible. And if this is not our understanding of Christmas, we have no Christmas.”

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“I have made myself my own first-responder. And if I’m really all that good, why am I still laying at the scene of the accident?”

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“I tell myself that I am what I need. But it is quite evident that what I need is what I’m not. And the greatest thing I’m not is God.”

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“Maybe what I need to be rescued from is the feeling that I don’t need to be rescued, for without a doubt this is the most difficult rescue of all.”

“In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God.”

“The purest principles of liberty and freedom are rooted in a morality irresistibly greater than the men who aspire to such things. Therefore, despite its allure, we must forcefully cast aside the manufactured morality of fallen men as being nothing less than the anthesis of the precious liberties and fragile freedoms which we can ill-afford to sacrifice on the altar of man’s fabricated morality.”

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“Weary’ is what I will most certainly be if I try to do everything ‘for God’ or ‘without God’ instead of being in partnership ‘with God.”

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“If there is any evidence that points to the existence of God, it is found in man’s incessant desire to be ‘god’ and his repeated failure to be anything but men who wish to be what they are not.”

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“If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.”

“Dear God, I commit to remember that the absence of a parent never means the absence of you.”

God Christian Mother Father Parent Healing Family Betrayal Abandonment Absent Parent

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“God holds every tear in the hallow of His hand, and each one that we shed is intermingled with a thousand of His own. And someday He will welcome us home, draw us deep into His embrace and let the tears of both spill on the floor, never to be collected again.”

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“Having spent the morning weeding, pruning and bringing the garden to near perfection, I took a moment to sit on the old garden bench to catch my breath, brush the dirt from my hands, and wipe the sweat from my brow. And scanning my handiwork, I realized that I did not make the garden beautiful. Rather, I just cleared away everything that had kept the beauty from being seen. And I thought, should we not do the same with our souls?”

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“The story of Christmas is too often rejected simply because it is the answer that mankind doesn’t want to a need that mankind won’t acknowledge.”

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“If I can live without that which I seek, I have errantly chosen to seek something that is not worth seeking.”

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“I cannot give you what you need because I am not enough of what you need. But I can point you to the God Who is everything that you need. And if you go to where I point you, you will need nothing. And is that not the point?”

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“To give myself over in the service of others may mean that I will forfeit everything that I want, but it also means that I will receive everything that I need. And if I am not big enough to let go of the former, then I am not yet big enough to handle the latter.”

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“We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?”

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“My limitations abruptly define the frighteningly negligible extent of my existence, yet my soul utterly perishes if bound by those very same limits. And does this not somehow evidence both the reality of and need for God?”

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“On every trip back to the Midwest, I step aside from my schedule and visit my parent’s graves. And with trimmers in hand I kneel down and I cut back the intruding grasses and occasional weed that has edged up against their headstones. It is not in grief that I do this, but in the fondest recollection. The tears that often visit me there are those of joy; that God had thought enough of me to bless me with parent’s rich in love, ever bound by sacrifice, and sturdy in faith despite the nature of the adversities that so often beset them. And as I leave their graves and head back to the pressing demands of my world, I depart with the commitment to live my life in a manner that my children will find no grief at my grave, but joy in knowing that God chose me for them.”

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“The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to open my mouth. Therefore, maybe I should think about talking less.”

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“God says that you are enough. You might look in the mirror with a million voices screaming something very different into the person that you see looking back at you. But voices and mirrors lie when God never does.”

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“They say that believing in God can be hard. But from where I’m standing, that’s nothing compared to having to believe in myself. Yet, the oddest thing of all is that God believes in me even if I don’t believe in either of us.”

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“The world offers us a lot of mirrors, and we spend a whole lot of time standing in front of a whole lot of them. And regardless of which one of these many mirrors we choose, it will never be large enough to take in ‘all that we are’ in order to reflect ‘all that we are’ back to us. For God made you far too marvelous for the mirrors of men. Therefore, you might want to quit standing in front of them.”

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“The question of ‘who I am’ is bigger than ‘who I am.’ Therefore, I think it far wiser to ask the Great I AM who I am.”

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“For many, God is the greatest annoyance because He has the answers for which we have no answer.”

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“Our prayers have two stages. First, we pray for something. And then second, we pray for the courage to deal with the rather shocking reality that the prayer was actually answered.”

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“Sometimes we don’t have the answer because it’s less about getting the answer and more about our unwillingness to acknowledge that we don’t have it and God does.”

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“If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers.”

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“How can I claim to be the center of my universe when I can’t even conceptualize that which I claim to be the center of?”

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“There is a never a cold so deep that a place of warmth cannot be found within it.”

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“Maybe finding ‘peace of mind’ begins by realizing that ‘peace’ will never begin in my ‘mind.’ And if I spend my life paying such a thought ‘no mind,’ never-mind finding ‘peace.”

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“I have long ago lost any interest in being in the majority. Rather, my sole interest is being with God, which oddly enough places me in the majority anyway.”

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“Life offers us many paths, but there’s only One that doesn’t lead to the edge of a cliff.”

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“If I have to create space for something to enter my life by asking God to leave my life, maybe what I’ve actually done is taken leave of my senses.”

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“The oddity of our existence is that we are capable of digging holes deeper than we are capable of getting ourselves out of. The greatness of God is that He has a shovel long enough for every hole ever dug.”

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“God in His omnipotence says, ‘Here it is.’ And we in our ignorance say, ‘No it’s not!’ And in the end there it was, and where it is we are not.”

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“Without God, my internal compass is something more akin to a windmill in a hurricane.”

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“God’s absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy.”

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“My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if perchance I choose to listen to the first two, I’m going to find myself so far off the ‘way’ that being lost becomes the ‘way’.”

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“God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives ‘declining’.”

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“If men built it, it’s not a refuge. Only God possesses that kind of material and only He has the craftsmanship to use it.”

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“May we as father’s pray that God would transform the men that we are in order to heal the wounds that we have caused. And might we kneel before this God every day so that the transformation never stops, but the wounding does.”

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