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Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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
To get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful.
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Feel Powerful Side Way
Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.
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Enough Lucky Prayer
Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn instead toward a definition of faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn out to be.
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Adherence Definitions May
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 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
We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.
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Calling Darkness Names
Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.
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Knowing Practice Succeed
In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life
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Practice Thinking World
Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
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Belief Important Radical
Our waiting is not nothing. It is something — a very big something — because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.
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Bigs People Waiting
Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes…swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.
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Believe Needs Want
I think my idea of God was much more directive than my idea of God now, that is, a God who had one plan in mind for me, perhaps, and my job was to find out what it was and obey.
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Ideas Jobs Thinking
You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you’re into a different kind of relationship.
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Community Different People
Most of us like thinking we are God’s only children…At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.
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Baptism Children Thinking
I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that’s entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else.
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Jesus Self Two

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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