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“Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach. —Mother Angelica”
― The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture
― The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture
“Hospitality is a call to stop being insular. Life often pushes us into friend groups that are all in the same life stage and circumstances. It makes perfect sense to need relationships with people who can understand what you’re going through and support you. I need mom friends I can vent to about never getting a chance to go into the bathroom alone, for instance. (How old do my kids have to be for me to enter that promised land?) But this natural need for commonality can often turn into creating your own little tribe or bubble and missing out on relationships with your brothers and sisters whose lives look very different. Even church programming can cause this by sorting everyone into “young professionals,â€� “families,â€� “singles,â€� “seniors,â€� and so forth. The truth is that we need one another—everybody.”
― The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture
― The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture
“Life is an adventure orchestrated by God, and our attempts to be in the driver’s seat will always result in mere frustration. Why? Because this is not the way of authentic love, which involves the total surrender of self. Authentic love calls for sacrifice. That is true of all of us. Whether it’s being up with a baby all night, caring for an aging parent, giving a hurting friend a landing place in your home for a while, or becoming a foster parent, we will be called on to sacrifice. That is the way of the Cross, and we are not offered anything else. It’s easy to think of parenthood as a season of sacrifice that ends so we can move on with our lives. But neither Christ nor the saints ever model living for ourselves. God never tells us, “Wow, thanks for your service. You’ve done your time and please enjoy the next four decades of your life living just for yourself. You’ve been serving others for awhile so grab your sunscreen and enjoy your remaining years drinking cocktails in Aruba.â€� Can you imagine that being the final chapter of a saint’s life? We are called to live out generous love in whatever opportunities present themselves to us.”
― The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture
― The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture
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