What people don't realize is how much religion costs.
They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course, it is the cross.
--Flannery O'Connor
They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course, it is the cross.
--Flannery O'Connor
Wow. Yes. And every time we try to domesticate it, we distort it--sometimes in incredibly damaging ways. How do we live in the tension between the simultaneous realities of our lives as
- children of the heavenly Father, safely gathered in his bosom, and
- self-giving followers of the cross?
What is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
with your one wild and precious life?
4 comments:
I love that Mary Oliver quote, and I needed to read it today, thank you.
You begin with Flannery and you conclude with Mary and you are the author of the in-between?
And you wonder why I love you???
So good. Two of my favorite quotes. Nice to read today--thanks.
BTW, go and look at the pictures at my blog, and you'll see my long time friend NM, whose wedding I came to four years ago at a Unitarian church in Bellingham, which was officially a "blessing" but was a "wedding" in the eyes of all the loving participants.
Both of these are wonderful quotations. Thank you. I especially needed the Mary Oliver quote.
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