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from the chapter: It isn’t all about me. And it isn’t all up to me. Jesus said, “My Father is always at his work to this day, and I too am working.” Only in this assurance are we able to lay down our idolatrous activity and find soul rest.

I donna suppose you could aspeed theens up?~ Inigo Montoya
From the chapter itself: We respond with automatic and unquestioning obedience, behind which lies, I believe, a misguided belief that our future wellbeing is rooted in our future prosperity and that our future prosperity is held in the hands of our boss rather than in the hands of God (p. 28).

“The river of temporal things hurries one along: but like a tree sprung up beside the river is our Lord Jesus Christ. He assumed flesh, died, rose again, ascended into heaven. It was His will to plant Himself, in a manner, beside the river of the things of time. Are you rushing down the stream to the headlong deep? Hold fast the tree. He become temporal that thou mightest become eternal.” ~Augustine