The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction
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Busyness functions like an addiction. When you stop, you have to face your thoughts, which terrifies most of us. So to cope you have to keep up the busyness.
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Legalism is the belief that the world hangs on what I do and that God and people love me based on how I perform.
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I’m reminded that work is not for me but for someone else,
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what I can’t escape is the desire to escape.
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No one can sleep while believing that she needs to keep the world spinning. But real rest comes when we thank God that we don’t need to, because he does.
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Just because prayers are repetitive doesn’t mean they’re meaningless.
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The pattern, not the anomaly, is the key.
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It can fracture our presence across time and space until nothing is left.
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Since humans first walked east of Eden, away from the presence of God, God has spent the rest of the story tracking his people down.
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We all seem to have a capacity to make ourselves appear okay while hiding something that slowly kills us from the inside out.
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Vulnerability and time turn people who have a relationship into people who have a friendship. That’s what friendship is: vulnerability across time. The practice of conversation is the basis of friendship because it’s in conversation that we become exposed to each other.
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What is a friend except someone who knows how broken we are yet sticks around to love us anyway?
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It isn’t on the mountains of triumph and victory but in the valleys of sorrow and loss that he waits for us.