Finding Faithfulness

Finding the Way

“What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.”
— Margaret Atwood

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The Gospel of Mathematics

“From nursery school onward we are taught how to succeed in the world of ungrace. The early bird gets the worm. No pain, No gain. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Demand your rights. You get what you pay for. I know these rules well because I live in them. I work for what I earn; I like to win; I insist on my right. I want people to get what they deserve – nothing more, nothing less.” Philip Yancey

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Building an Empire

“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.” – David Allan Coe

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Otherworldliness

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

– Stephen Hawking

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Jesus and Ted Williams

“For my money, Ted Williams is the greatest hitter of all-time. I’d take him over Ruth, I’d take him over Cobb. I’d take him over Cobb because of the combination of power and average. I’d take him over Ruth because with Ruth, you can only speculate about what he would have done in the modern era. Ted Williams hit .388 at the age of 39 in 1957. He was what few of us ever become; he was exactly what he set out to be. He said he wanted to be able to walk down the street some day and have people say “There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived”. And if they don’t say that, it’s only because they don’t know what they’re talking about.” – Bob Costas

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The Object of His Affection

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless–it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.” – C.S. Lewis

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A New Normal

“God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it. But if I am true to the concept that God utters in me, if I am true to the thought of Him that I was meant to embody, I shall be full of his actuality and find him everywhere in myself, and find myself nowhere.” — Thomas Merton

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Running on empty…

“We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life; we’ve added years to our lives, but not life to our years. We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We’ve split the atom, but not our prejudice. We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait. These days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw away morality, one night stands, overweight bodies and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It’s a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the storeroom.” – Norris Peters

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The Big Three…

“American Culture fosters and sustains a functional Trinitarian god of consumerism, hedonism and nationalism. Made in this image and likeness of such a god, we

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Life, Part II…

“The gospel message is being molded to suit an increasingly narcissistic culture. Conversion is proclaimed as the road to self-realization… Religion… as a way to

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The Love of a Savior

“Experiencing God’s love in Jesus Christ means experiencing that one has been unreservedly accepted, approved, infinitely loved, that one can and should accept one’s self

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Times of Hope

“Christians are a source of hope to the extent that others can find in them a source of strength and joy.” – Brennan Manning We

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Transparency

“Without the purpose and work of Christ using me for his purpose, my contribution to this world would be an asphalt driveway in front of

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He is worthy

“There is no substance under the things with which you are clothed. You are hollow and your structure of pleasure and ambitions has no foundation.

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Let go… let God

“When you are faithful in silent meditation… you will slowly experience yourself in a deeper way. Because in this useless hour in which you do

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Followers of the Asterisk…

“The truth shall set you free.” The words of Christ to those who believe in Him to understand what it is to be his disciple. These days the truth seems harder and harder to find.

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Audience of One

“Today is the greatest day I’ve never known Can’t wait for tomorrow I might not have that long I’ll tear my heart out before I

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Lunatic Justice

“The absolutely unpardonable thing was not (Jesus’) concern for the sick, the cripples, the lepers, the possessed… not even for his partisanship for the poor,

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Serenity Now!!!

“The Devil never rejoices more than when he robs a servant of God of his peace of heart.” – Francis of Assisi Stillness is vital

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In the path of brokenness

“To embrace one’s brokenness, whatever it looks like, whatever has caused it, carries within it the possibility that one might come to embrace one’s healing.”

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Not as we expect…

“I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom.” – Bob Hope Waiting. We’re all waiting for

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Uncommon Decency

“The absolutely unpardonable thing was not (Jesus’) concern for the sick, the cripples, the lepers, the possessed… not even his partisanship for the poor, humble

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Asleep in the light

“Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexplained tears, it is well to pay close attention. They are not only telling you something about

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The Wellspring

“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words; wait and

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The calling to be free

“Quit keeping score altogether and surrender yourself with all your sinfulness to God who sees neither the score nor the score-keeper, but only his child

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A tale of two Peters…

“Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? – Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an

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Security out of Risk

“Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take; the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally.

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Embraced, not judged…

“One imponderable trait of the human psyche is its ability to make irrational judgments about worthwhile human investments along with its refusal to view life

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A Place of Prayer

“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.” – Martin Luther King, Jr Amidst times of trials

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To God Be The Glory, Now And Forever — Amen​

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