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This quote from David Wells struck me this morning. From his book, God in the Wasteland:

turned to a God that we can use rather than to a God we must obey; we have turned to a God who will fulfill our needs rather than to a God before whom we must surrender our rights to ourselves. He is a God for us, for our satisfaction — not because we have learned to think of him in this way through Christ but because we have learned to think of him in this way through the marketplace. In the marketplace, everything is for us, for our pleasure, for our satisfaction, and we have come to assume that it must be so in the church as well. And so we transform the God of mercy into the God who is at our mercy…if the sunshine of his benign grace fails to warm us as we expect, if he fails to shower prosperity and success on us, we will find ourselves unable to believe in him anymore.

Every hurt will MAKE you or BREAK you based on your response. Stepping stone or stumbling block? Better or bitter? U choose.
~Rick Warren

The gospel is not just about salvation:”Hearing and believing the good news will release the power of God into your situation.”Joseph Prince

Reminded me to not live under the weight of my past sin. Great devotion. http://t.co/muxgUn7L

“Faith is risk.” ~Inspired by Tim Lucas’ sermon on Power & Pain (http://t.co/dYHDD91j)

It is not so much great faith in God that is required as faith in a great God. ~Leon Morris, referencing Luke 17:6

As per the recommendation of a friend, I’m reading Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller. It took me a while to get in to it but I’m enjoying the author’s perspective on Christianity as a relationship and not a series of formulas and to do lists. Here’s a gem I uncovered last night:

“But here is Adam, the only perfect guy in the world, and he is going around wanting to be with somebody else, needing another person to fulfill a certain emptiness in his life.”

The author is referring to Genesis 2:18 & 20: “Then the LORD God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.’ The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.”

The author points out that we were created to be relational beings. We were made for relationships.

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt

I work in a manufacturing environment that sits next to our national office. As a result you wind up with people in uniforms from the manufacturing environment and people from the national office who wear business casual. It’s easy to perceive this as a class distinction. Folks in the manufacturing environment allow themselves to feel this class distinction, to feel inferior. The same could go for people who work in cubicles versus having an office. It’s a perceived class distinction. You can choose to believe it or choose not to. It all comes down to fear and self-confidence. Are you going to allow a uniform or a cubicle to define your worth?

Recently, we attended my husband’s eleven year high school reunion. It made me recall this quote from Hope Floats:

“Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.”
~Birdee Pruitt

Perfection is the enemy!
~ Lyrics from the song “Free to Be Me” by Francesca Battistelli