Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal.
No big shocker that following Jesus is costly. The best things in life always are.
God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here. ’
It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God.
Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship.
When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.
God's plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day.
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.
I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.
The last time I had PMS a roast chicken popped out of the oven and danced the Macarena. Krebs had walked in just as the chicken started dancing. By then he was pretty much used to anything and only asked if the chicken shouldn’t be doing the Chicken Dance instead.
But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being, a concession to the blunder of creation itself. We should be able to do better, and we can. To have our egos killed off is second-best to killing off death and all the squalid byplay that flitters around it. So let all lands be small, and grower smaller and smaller until no lands are left where any human footstep need press itself upon the earth.