Vocation (82)
  1. Our very lives as parents and children implicitly proclaim this higher and lovely truth: we have no value to God based upon our usefulness.
  2. One of the first steps in recovering from a broken marriage is to find ways to heal the divorce that’s happened within our own souls.
  3. In this religious Sodom, we had a Jesus with the heart of Moses whose gospel was a new and improved law.
  4. As important as the training of your children is, much more important is handing them over to God—from the very beginning, from infancy, and beyond.
  5. There is no perfect, divinely chosen, just-waiting-for-you-to-figure-it-out job for you. The Lord will use you to serve others in whatever vocation you choose. You’re not only his child but his priest. So, wherever you work, there is your altar.
  6. Just as we believe ourselves to be forgiven because God sees us in Christ, so to forgive others is to see them as God sees them in Christ. To forgive, in other words, is to put God’s eyes in our eyes and our eyes in God’s eyes.
  7. The more that we hear the law, the more we recognize others as those who, like us, are torn and tattered by the wounds of sin and brokenness.
  8. For on the other side of the death of forgiveness is the resurrection of joy. An easter in which we emerge from the tomb in the arms of the man whose scars glow with mercy.
  9. Marriage is the ideal school in which to learn that we are not the center of the universe. We’re not created to live for ourselves. We find our true humanity only when we live for other people.
  10. Rather than telling our children, “You can be anything you want to be,” let’s tell them, “Be the best possible servant you can be.”
  11. Jesus comes to pop our bubbles of pride, implode our towers of vanity, expose our arrogant adulting ways, and brings us down, down, down. Down to his level, which is the level of crucifixion.
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