Children are made of awe” Let the Children Come, Faith of the Child, Blessed are the… Faith of the Mustard Seed
“Impoverished by the honor withheld from us in childhood, we become very willing participants in childhood, we become very willing participants in a kind of spiritual maturation that honors the profound and grave, even at the expense of the simple and the beautiful.P. P. 30-31
“seeing the veils of this world peeled back again and again, if only for a moment—is no small form of salvation” p. 31 I lift my eyes to the hills
“too enamored with the mountaintops, we should ask ourselves whether their ephor comes from love or from the experience of supremacy.P. 32
“To encounter the holy in the ordinary is to find God in the liminal.” p. 33
Simply beauty + belonging
“If you want to know if your’ve forgotten how to marvel, try staring at something beautiful for five minutes and see where your mind goes.” p. 35
“Taste and see that the Lord is good” (Psalm 34:8) p. 35 Revelation 21
Too busy, neglect babies, less perceptive to pain, we lose touch with other sensations—trauma p. 38-39
“Wonder, then, is a force of liberation. It makes sense of what our souls inherently know we were meant for” save and find hope in the mundane p. 40 favorite smell, sight, activity, hobby
Eli “I resented this for quite some time. That God would spend her time talking to people about which state to live in but would not rouse herself to tell me that she is real or that I am real. It weighs on you as a kind of injustice that God would call some so distinctly and precisely and leave the rest of us to replay our dreams five times a night just so we know which corner to hide in.” p. 43
“not all calls come from outside” p. 44
Ask young people what is true of them right now. There are parts we hide even from ourselves, and we sometimes believe lies we tell, and we sometimes embrace mirages to belong p. 45
“Any love we receive while earring the mask only affirms the belief that unmasked, we are indeed unlovable. Our shame is not resolved. It expands. p. 46
“the process of knowing the self should be relentless” p. 46 confession
“The mirage self has no concern for the sound of the genuine in you, for the body, for the mind…it wants you dead” p. 47
“My journey to the truth of God cannot be parsed from my journey to the truth of who I am.” p. 48
“honor the sacred in our work without creating spiritual hierarchies…God is in the streets” p. 51
God in word on the page, first mathematician, first artist, washed filth from feet, “excellence may be a part of the calling, but work itself is a meeting place for the divine as we experience a God who labors alongside us.” p. 52 Jesus spits? Washing of Feet?
“Don’t forget this: Nothing is truly ever ordinary. I’m telling you, Protect the truest things about you and it will become easier to hear the truth everyplace else.” p. 55
“I cannot now name the the song, but when I hear the sound, I will recognize it.” p. 55
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