Monday, May 24, 2010

You're On





“If I have a hope, it’s that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story, and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.

I’ve wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don’t want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgement. We don’t want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn’t remarkable, then we don’t have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims rather than grateful participants.”

~ Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Born For This





The joyous miracle of Pentecost was not that Christians began to speak in tongues as much as it was that others heard the wonders of God declared in their own language through them. In this and for this the church was born.

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