In the book Mountains Beyond Mountains, the renowned public health physician Paul Farmer tells his biographer, Tracy Kidder, “People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.” I think Farmer is entirely right that a saint would be a great thing to be. The saints are, ultimately, the people we recognize as fully alive—the people who flourished and brought flourishing to others, the ones in whom the glory of God was most fully seen. There really is no other goal higher for us than to become people who are so full of authority and
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