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Let Your Life Speak ... Vocation
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Chapter IV
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Claire
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Mar 02, 2023 09:35AM
"...saying pious words about God's presence in our lives but believing, on the contrary, that nothing good is going to happen unless we make it happen."
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“I had embraced a form of Christian faith devoted less to the experience of God than to abstractions about God, a fact that now baffles me: how did so many disembodied concepts emerge from a tradition whose central commitment is to “the Word become flesh”?
“…an inflated ego that led me to think more of myself than was warranted in order to mask my feat that I was less than I should have been.”
“I had always imagined God to be in the same general direction as everything else that I valued: up.” (In defense to depression being a descent down / grounding)
“The underground is a dangerous but potentially life-giving place to which depression takes us…”
“where we are brought low, rendered powerless, stripped of pretenses and defenses, and left feeling fraudulent, empty, and useless -a humiliation that allows us to regrow our lives from the ground up, from the humus of common ground.”
“You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done … you are fierce with reality” -Florida Scott Maxwell
“At the same time, embracing one’s wholeness makes life more demanding -because one you do that, you must live your whole life.”“I had failed to understand the perverse comfort we sometimes get from choosing death in life, exempting ourselves from the challenge of using our gifts, of living our lives in authentic relationship with others.”
