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“Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under it’s own weight and we with it. Forgiveness is freedom multiplied against the Cross until it flies under it’s own liberation and we with it.”

“It’s not so much about the difficult place that I’m at, although that’s what’s probably got most of my attention. Rather, it’s more about how I got here. Because whatever that is, if I don’t change it I’m going to live out the whole of my life is some pretty similar places.”

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“If I end up at the edge of this cliff one more time than the number of times I’ve walked away from it, I need to burn my map, trade in my compass and ask God for a new set.”

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“For if the nature of the story is such that my mother left me with deficits and scars, I can know that the nature of God is such that He will leave me blessings and health.”

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“To lead is to serve. Conversely, to serve is to lead. And if either of these elements are removed from the equation, we’ll soon find that we’re doing neither.”

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“Without as much as a single question, legions of geese lift themselves to autumn’s skies, obediently heeding the distant call of southern horizons. And I think that it’s less the magnificence of their trek, and more about the humility of their obedience to the trek. For if I was left with a single prayer to utter, it would be to be more like them.”

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“Authentic greatness involves doing great things and then saying that I had nothing to do with it because God had everything to do with it. Anything else is my ego on a bender.”

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“Choosing to ignore what I see to the point that I no longer see it is a formidable blindness wrought by the working of my own hand, And to be led by such a hand is to perish by the cliff that it is certain to lead me off of.”

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“Have you ever thought that ‘the blind leading the blind’ is about two people? The former assumes that they know where they’re going. The latter assumes that the former knows where they’re going. And that neither end up in either place.”

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“Blindness is not the inability to see. Rather, it is the choice not to see.”

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“I have had the privilege of meeting a host of people who are totally blind. Yet despite their blindness, these individuals possess some of the most remarkable vision that I have ever encountered. And every time I meet one these incredible individuals, I am forced to rethink what blindness really is.”

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“It was always the magic of those dense snowfalls that bedecked the landscape in a whitened splendor and rendered the horizon cloaked to invisibility in winter’s frosty veil. And in the rapture of such moments, you find yourself pressed beyond any and all means of resistance to hold onto anything except the majesty of the ascending moment. And being held a willing hostage, it takes but a moment of these moments to realize that everything around you has been swept up in just the same way, leaving you joined with the whole of creation that is both quieted in awe, but likewise raucous in praise. And I wonder (in some very remote way), if the first Christmas night might have been something like this.”

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“I have no wish to stand amidst the accolades of men, even should millions of them shout my name in adoration. Instead, I would rather bow in the audience of God without a single man knowing that to be happening.”

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“It’s not what God asks of us. Rather, it’s what He wants to give to us. And in a society that has focused on the former at the exclusion of the latter, we have fundamentally ‘asked’ that God give us ‘nothing.’ And if you’re at all curious about what ‘nothing’ looks like, watch the news.”

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“To refuse to sacrifice may in fact be the greatest sacrifice. For refusing to sacrifice means that I willfully throw away some of the greatest growth that life has to offer me.”

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“Serving someone in the most sacrificial way possible is to willingly place ourselves in a position where we may need to be saved from those that we serve, while determining that we will forgo any such saving.”

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“God did not wait for us to believe in ourselves before He acted out of His belief in us.”

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“It was His love for us that cost Him everything. And that is the essence of Christmas that should be the substance of our lives.”

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“When we say it is the whole story, the cross tells us that death is only half the story. And it is by far the least compelling half.”

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“If ingenuity is an indicator of how much we love someone, then the story of Christmas is about as ingenious as you can get.”

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“Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.”

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“Maybe I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.”

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“Easter is God throwing everything at death so that I can give everything to life.”

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“Easter says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning.”

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“There are an incalculable number of things within me that I frantically wish to be emptied of, and despite my most earnest efforts to remove them, they remain. And it is Easter that reminds me that God empties out tombs.”

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“We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.”

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“I am pressed to admit that I don’t have the capacity to understand the bloodied horrors of a cross and the wild exhilaration of an empty tomb. But at the point that I think I completely understand God, I have at that very point humanized Him and in that very action I have lost Him. Therefore, I much prefer to simply marvel.”

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“Sooner or later I will realize that the very things I most desperately need are the very things I am unable to give myself. Therefore, I will either be left despising the fact that I am doomed to live out a life that is perpetually empty, or I will realize that an empty tomb is the single thing that will eternally fill me.”

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“Reasonably speaking, we can see the cross as entirely possible. But in considering Easter, we see an empty tomb as entirely impossible. And is it possible that God had to do the impossible to finally get our attention?”

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“Easter is the final solution to the finality of death.”

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“A god of the ‘possible’ is no God.”

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“God emptied out that first tomb so that He could turn around and empty out me.”

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“Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God’s beginning.”

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“Do I dare believe such an absurdly outrageous story that a man would die, lay lifeless in some tomb for three days and then somehow live again? Yet, if I dare to consider it, is that not exactly what I so desperately desire for this lifeless life of mine? And is Easter God’s tenderly outrageous way of telling me that that is exactly what I can have?”

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“Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of ‘doing’ happens every day.”

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“What insanity causes a king abandon the comforts of his kingdom and willfully discard the privileges of royalty in order to save an ornery and rebellious people who have spent a lifetime rejecting him? We have yet to understand that such an action is nothing of insanity. Rather, it is everything of love.”

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“I am wholly deserving of all the consequences that I will in fact never receive simply because God unashamedly stepped in front of me on the cross, unflinchingly spread His arms so as to completely shield me from the retribution that was mine to bear, and repeatedly took the blows. And I stand entirely unwounded, utterly lost in the fact that the while His body was pummeled and bloodied to death by that which was meant for me and me alone, I have not a scratch.”

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“To strategize a rescue mission irrefutably capable of saving every human being is leagues beyond our ability to comprehend, and enormous beyond any resource we possess to execute. And to embark upon just such a mission fully knowing that without our death the mission will fall to failure is bravery of the greatest sort imaginable. Yet, that is exactly what Christmas is.”

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“If a grave is empty, is it a grave? I wonder how Jesus would answer that.”

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“Do not share your faith with anyone unless you are determined to act upon it. For if you are not determined to act upon it, there’s nothing to share in the first place.”

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“It’s not the capability of the tool, but the skill of the craftsman. And if the product that we’ve created doesn’t exceed the capability of who we are, we’ve placed ourselves in the hands of a craftsman who’s less than the God we need.”

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“Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are.”

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“It was the entirely unexpected and sorely welcomed song of a single robin in the waking hours of a new morning that reminded me that this day will not be what I make it. Rather, it will be what I permit God to bring into it. And so my prayer is that my days will always be filled with robins.”

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“Have we ever consider the boldness of Christmas? For to craft such a daring story and to do so in a manner that it is sufficiently sturdy to stand up under the relentless scrutiny that is certain to be brought to bear against such a story is boldness indeed. And when God pens a story He does so not fearing scrutiny, but inviting as much of it as any one of us can muster up, for God does nothing that is not bold. Such is God and such is Christmas.”

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“I think that the stories that God has told and the things that He has done seem utter implausible to us only because we lock Him into the tiny rubrics that the stories He has told and the things that He has done invite us outside of.”

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“It’s less that we’re missing the gift of vision and more that we have the tendency to obstruct it.”

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“The nature of hope is such that it will grow in direct proportion to our lack of belief in it.”

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“If we take a promise of God and refuse to believe it, we must remember that it wasn’t God who didn’t deliver it. Rather, it was that we refused to receive it.”

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“If we doubt the faulty nature of the foundations that we create, we might ask if we’re currently standing on one, or are we sitting on the ground looking at the last one that collapsed. And since we’re already sitting, maybe we’d be smart to ponder that.”

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