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Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.

Barbara Brown Taylor

I’m a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like “Christian.”
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Christian Followers Mean
I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.
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might People Soul
I don’t miss the ministry, because I’m completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.
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Groups Missing People
I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I’d left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I’d left.
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Ministry People Sorry
I don’t have time for a job that doesn’t leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.
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Jobs Praying Quiet
Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices…. Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.
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Choices Healing Responsibility
The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.
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Effort Heart Sky
I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.
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Home Nursing People
I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.
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Sailboat Thinking Turns
I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that were never in the realm of possible things to do before. That was a real desert experience for me.
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Home Real Sunday
Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
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Doors Keys Locks
Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.
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Everyday Reality Sky
To be fully human is perhaps why I’m Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.
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Christian Jesus Way
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
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Self Tradition World
Humanity can be pretty stinky.
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Humanity Pretty Stinky
Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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Metaphorical Science Scientific

Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.

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