"I have felt pain in my own life and am acutely aware of the suffering of people around me. I have seen struggles and setbacks were not always due to sinfulness but were simply a part of the human existence. People get sick and die. Cars crash. Children contract diseases and never recover. Friends betray one another. Couples fight and divorce. Sometimes it's hard to believe life is good. It's not always pleasant, but life is a gift, and your job as a human being is to go out there and live it the best you can. Christianity doesn't answer all my questions or make me comfortable and happy. What it does is give me a context for living."
-rich mullins
"Earth's crammed with heaven; and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees, takes off his shoes...the rest sit around it and pluck blackberries."
-elizabeth barrett browning
"The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me... into the landscape of being us."
-frederick buechner
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal...lock it up safe in the coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket...it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. For love is not there."
-cs lewis
"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."
-gk chesterton
be God's!
Brian O
Lead Pastor dude, ECHO
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