Here is an encouraging quote for the day. ~ cjc ~ "Let me tell you about this God. A God who has always used imperfect people. A God whose loving desire to be known overflowed the heavens and became manifest in the rapidly dividing cells inside the womb of an insignificant peasant girl in first century Palestine. A God who slipped into skin and walked among us full of grace and truth with sand between his toes. Who ate with all the wrong people. And kissed lepers and touched the unclean and spoke through thirsty women and hungry men. Who from the cross did not even lift a finger to condemn the enemy but instead said I would rather die than be in the sin accounting business anymore. This is a God who rose from the dead and grilled fish on the beach and ascended into heaven and is especially present to us in the most offensively ordinary things:wheat, wine, water, word. This God will use all of you, and not just your strengths but your and failures and failings and your brokenness. And God’s strength is perfected in human weakness. So your brokenness is fertile ground for a forgiving God to make something new, something beautiful. So don’t ever think that all you have to offer is your gifts, because God is going to use you too, God is going to use all of you, and the world better watch out." ~Nadia Bolz-Weber~
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:24:55 +0000