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As a child with parents who scarcely knew me, I remember distinctly what I yearned for—to be somewhere safe with somebody good.
I worried too much about what others thought—I can tell you it’s a tragic waste of time and energy and pokes God in the eye.
‘Visit this place, O Lord,’ he prayed into the darkened room, ‘and drive far from it all snares of the enemy; let your holy angels dwell with us to preserve us in peace; and let your blessing be upon us always; through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.’
‘Lord,’ he prayed, ‘make me a blessing to someone today.’
Maybe we can only go as high as we can go deep.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.—Marcel Proust
He tucked her in with a quote from Victor Hugo. ‘“Sleep in peace, God is awake.”’
The little miracles. Those were the ones to watch for in this life.
‘We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime.’
Bonhoeffer said it’s not about hero worship, but intimacy with God.’
In a culture of instant gratification, it felt good to wait.
‘“All that I have seen,” Mr. Emerson said and I say with him, “teaches me to trust the Creator for all that I have not seen.”’
