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1 Corinthians 4:5

11/11/2021

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For He will shine a light into
The hidden things of dark,
Reveal the counsels hidden in
The hardness of the heart,

Emblazon still the eye of love
With coronary light,
And make the flesh replace the stone
And day replace the night.
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Rod Dreher on living not by lies

11/9/2021

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Dreher writes,
Once you perceive how the system runs on lies, stand as firmly as you can on what you know to be true and real when confronted by those lies. Refuse to let the media and institutions propagandize your children. Teach them how to identify lies and to refuse them. Do your best not to be party to the lie—not for the sake of professional advantage, personal status, or any other reason. Sometimes you will have to act openly to confront the lie directly. Other times you will fight it by remaining silent and withholding the approval authorities request. You might have to raise your voice to defend someone who is being slandered by propagandists.
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents. New York, NY: Sentinel, 2020. p. 108.
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James K. A. Smith on Friendship with God

11/8/2021

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Smith writes,
To aspire to friendship with God, however, is an ambition for something you could never lose. It is to get attention from someone who sees you and knows you and will never stop loving you. It short, it's the opposite of fickle human attention, which is temporal and temperamental. God's attention is not predicated on your performance. You don't have to catch God's notice with your display. He's not a father you have to shock in order to jar his attention away from the game, crying out, "Look at me! Look at me!" God's attention is a place where you can find rest and where, "in the father's lap," as Augustine later puts it, you don't have to be worried about getting attention from anyone else. You can rest.
On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2019. p. 88-9
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