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It was no longer a straight line to an airport, it was a mysterious hinterland of shadowy detours and hidey-holes. Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one’s attitude.
The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that’s always been there, and the next minute it’s just a memory.”
There was a red button on the wall labeled EMERGENCY, but no button labeled BEWILDERMENT.
Oasans invoked the blessing of God for everything, which either meant they understood the notion of blessedness better than most Christians, or not at all.
Like all creatures in the universe, they were only waiting for the elusive light that would grant them purpose.
He sat for a while, in a state of prayer without forming any words, just allowing the membrane between himself and Heaven to become permeable.
once it dawned on you that everyone who wasn’t a native speaker of Canaanite Hebrew, Koine Greek or Galilean Aramaic was at an equal disadvantage, you could relax and feel that Scripture in your own tongue was as good as Scripture in anyone else’s.
He could still remember his sense of wonder when, at some point during the night, the mound of garbage on which he lay started heating up, enveloping his half-frozen body with warmth. This unlikely, unexpected generosity from a non-human agency was an early foretaste of how he would feel in the bosom of Christ.
explain more fully how prayer worked. That it wasn’t a matter of asking for things and being accepted or rejected, it was a matter of adding one’s energy—insignificant in itself—to the vastly greater energy that was God’s love. In fact, it was an affirmation of being part of God, an aspect of His spirit temporarily housed inside a body. A miracle similar, in principle, to the one that had given human form to Jesus.
When in distress, don’t self-obsess, reach out.
Dear God, please don’t let Lover Five die. It was such an infantile prayer, the sort of prayer a five-year-old might pray. But maybe those were the best kind.
