“Everything I was doing was to make my job more sustainable for me, but all it did was make the (what I now know was) inevitable end less jarring.”
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“I’m trying to be honest with myself (and you, Reader) about this and frankly, it’s uncomfortable. I don’t like writing about him because I want to avoid honesty.”
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“I’d been ignoring my small harshness towards God so much that I was sacrificing our big relationship on an altar of comfort-motivated avoidance, shallow legalism, and pride.”
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“What’s going to be a game-changer for you this year? There are endless possibilities - spiritual growth, career development, emotional wholeness, investing in your relationships better.”
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“What’s so great about God is that even with giving us the greatest gift of his son Jesus, he doesn’t stop there. He continues to give because it’s in his nature.”
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“It’s easier said than done, but I’m definitely over the self-condemnation. I much prefer holy conviction.”
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“To try to make another adult feel an emotion is to claim an arrogant amount of authority over their well-being and to discredit their own God-given abilities of control over their reactions.”
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“And so the cycle is this: you keep going to all the Christian events, taking your hits of worship to absorb this pseudo-satisfaction that you’re a deep Christian because you allow yourself to cry at church.”
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“I found familiarity and comfort in a previously played out disaster scenario. They come back when needed until eventually they’re played out and another takes its place. Gotta keep the disaster scenarios fresh.”
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“But I remember leaving the jail and the feeling of shock over the mess I’d just gotten myself into, the disbelief that I was one of those ‘bad people who gets arrested.’ I remember feeling the need to go to church.”
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“Words are the most common form of currency we use to connect with those around us. They have a give and take policy between its patrons, and it takes more than a lifetime to master all of their uses.”
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