Where the Eye Alights Quotes

“I have some misgivings about the popular question, "What would Jesus do?" It seems to me slightly presumptuous to imagine we know what Jesus would do on any occasion, given the startling ways he turned the law to his own profound purposes, violated conventional expectations, reframed the commandments, and upended class-based notions of human worth.

"What did Jesus do?" on the other hand, seems like a useful question to keep raising ... And perhaps even more pertinent might be "What is Jesus doing?" How is the one who promised to be with us always in the Holy Spirit - blowing where it will , poured out on all humankind - moving among us and within us?”
― Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Where the Eye Alights: Phrases for the Forty Days of Lent

“I like to think the "watch" part of the instruction [to watch and pray] might sound something like the way a child would call out, "Hey! Watch this!" ... You don't want to miss this ... and closer attentiveness to the ... invitations the Spirit offers... We are accompanied and witnessed and even when we fall asleep, watched.”
― Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Where the Eye Alights: Phrases for the Forty Days of Lent

“I have limits. Perhaps I can stretch them. But respecting them, I have learned, is generally wiser than pretending they're not there. Because I don't have all the time in the world, I have this whole hour, this day. The duration of one cup of coffee. The time it takes to listen to one more winding sentence or to stay with a child on her slow way to sleep.”
― Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Where the Eye Alights: Phrases for the Forty Days of Lent