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You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.

Barbara Brown Taylor

Humanity can be pretty stinky.
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Humanity Pretty Stinky
I found myself in a maze where I’d taken the wrong turn. In my wish to do well for that congregation I wasn’t doing particularly well for myself or my friends or my family, and I even found that the work for God was taking me away from God.
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Maze Taken Wish
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
The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we choose to live it now.
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Determined Life Long
The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There’s a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.
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Eye Loss Self
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 get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful.
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Feel Powerful Side Way
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
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
Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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Metaphorical Science Scientific
When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.
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Jesus Mean Way
The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
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Differences Letting Go Real
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
Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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Kindness Names Use
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
The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.
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People Sunday Tired

You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.

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You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.

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