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Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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 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 real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
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Problem Real Reality Resistance
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
Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.
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Character Church Meaningful
God does some of God’s best work with people who are seriously lost.
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Lost People Seriously
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 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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Clothes Drop Important Mirrors Spiritual
The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don’t even have to love your neighbor to be civil. You just have to treat your neighbor the same way you would like your neighbor to treat your grandmother, or your child.
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Children Grandmother Love You
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
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
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
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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Hard Recognizing Thinking Times
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
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
I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
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Father Love Thinking

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