Shanna

“The artist's role in the world involves God's people being artistic for everyone, everywhere, and in everything inspired and directed by the law of love.”
― Charlie Peacock, Why Everything That Doesn't Matter, Matters So Much: The Way of Love in a World of Hurt

“..as in all housework, there is something inherently redemptive in the process, and therefore something truly good. To rend usefulness and order from the soiled and dejected is always a holy work, howsoever trivial it might seem on the surface. But we do not live in the surface of things, not really, no matter how we might skim along the glassy crust above the deeper meaning of our days. The place where we really live, where the humblest things serve the highest ends and the most menial tasks are quickened by love, is down amid the unseen ordinary where sacred significance thrums through the practicalities of daily life.”
― Lanier Ivester, Glad and Golden Hours: A Companion for Advent and Christmastide

“The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless reruns of Friends. Perhaps, we are learning how to fit in socially and politically by spending hours and hours on social media. Perhaps we are paying attention, day and night, to what we don't have, wasting our time on Earth in envy, frustration, and discontent. We are paying attention to something. Maybe it isn't verb tenses, or the periodic table of elements, or the Great Books, but we are all being educated by our loves. Recognizing that maybe what we love is unworthy is the first step in being truly educated. What is worthy of this love I have? What is worthy of my time and attention? Let me tell you a secret. Education is free. It is simply a matter of opening your eyes and acknowledging the 'I don't know.”
― Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

“Love is the indispensable atmosphere within which children grow into emotional maturity.”
― John R.W. Stott, The Cross of Christ