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“What if you wake up at sixty and realize that you forgot to wake up, and you never became the person you were born to be, and now your hair is falling out?”
― Anne Lamott, Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

“We cannot carry the gospel to the poor and lowly while emulating the practices of the rich and powerful.”
― Jen Hatmaker, 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

“Stewardship is like that. I won’t answer for the way another Christian mismanaged money. I won’t be charged with another person’s irresponsible consumption. Nor will I get credit for how another faith community shared or sacrificed luxuries for the marginalized. I’ll answer for my choices.”
― Jen Hatmaker, 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

“We might have a zillion reasons to be jaded about our world, but that is not the kind of person I want to be. I want to be someone who clings to the grace and the gift and the good. Rather than spend my days scanning the digital horizon for a dopamine hit of false comfort, I want to keep my ear tuned to the groanings of my place. I want to stand ready, as Christ’s ambassador in my neighborhood, wearing grace, flesh, and skinny jeans. I want to belong, just as I am, and I want to get better at loving people for every good and puzzling thing they are.”
― Shannan Martin, The Ministry of Ordinary Places: Waking Up to God's Goodness Around You