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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.

Barbara Brown Taylor

We’re children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We’re also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.
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Children Daughter Son
Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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Chance InterAction Offers
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
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
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
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
When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it’s losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.
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Ideas Losing Lost
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
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 didn’t want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.
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Becoming Priest Want
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
The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.
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Church Ideas People
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
I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.
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Dark Light Needs
Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
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Belief Important Radical
I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was…it wasn’t until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.
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Becoming Faithful might

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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