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There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here I am. This is the body-like-no-other that my life has shaped. I live here. This is my soul’s address

Barbara Brown Taylor

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.
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Holiness Waiting World
Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.
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Jobs Meaningful Opportunity
With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.
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Blessed Jesus Religious
I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
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Leaving Littles Successful
The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
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Differences Letting Go Real
I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I’ll capitalize both of those R’s, because God is a word that means different things to different people, but we might all agree it’s what is most real.
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Mean People Real
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
There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that’s what led to my downward spin.
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Praying Quiet Way
To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.
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Church Community Knows
Humanity can be pretty stinky.
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Humanity Pretty Stinky
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 have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.
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Holy Ignorance Religious
Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
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Belief Important Radical
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
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
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Christian Inspirational Religious
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

There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here I am. This is the body-like-no-other that my life has shaped. I live here. This is my soul’s address

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