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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love?

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

... if the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, our own emptiness, might actually become places to see. To see through to God. That that which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actu...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to tas...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His l...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

And it's the 'Word of God' that turns the rocks in the mouth to loaves on the tongue. That fills our emptiness with the true and real good, 'that makes the eyes see', the body full of light.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Without God's Word as a lens, the world warps.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

I wear the lens of the Word and all the world transfigures into the Beauty of Christ and 'everything is eucharisteo'.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Count blessings and discover Who can be counted on.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are