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• Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas of love and forgiveness with damage in his own heart. We historically create God in the image of someone who will redeem us, or someone who has damaged us. A lot of my imaginations of God was a projection of my own damage because of my father. God is good but he has a lot of expectations, of which I have failed -- just like my dad. But I don't think it's truthful to create God as a projection of either our damage or our altruism.

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  Religious, Dad, Father

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• City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.

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  Country, Pain, Cities

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• The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

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  Enemy, Obscurity, Controversy

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• Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.

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  Goodness, I Can, Saved

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• Every human being is a universe within themselves. Your mother and father participated with God to create a soul who would never cease to exist. Your parents, as co-creators, supplied the stuff, genetics and more, uniquely combined to form a masterpiece, not flawless but still astounding; and we took from their hands what they brought to us, submitting to their timing and history and added what only we could bring to them -- life. You were conceived, a living wonder who exploded into being.

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  Mother, Father, Hands

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• The Gospel is a declaration of something totally finished apart from our agreement or vote. Inside that declaration is an ongoing and relentless invitation to deepening relationship but any lack of belief or participation on our part has no power to negate the accomplished truth of that declaration.

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  Agreement, Ongoing, Belief

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• Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.

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  Memories, Irritation, Missing

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• There is only one race ... and it is human!

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  Race, Humans

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• It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.

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  Children, Desire, Needs

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• Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see ... with regret that he was liable to err, and that his authority has, perhaps, sometimes even retarded the progress of science.

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  Regret, Believe, Names

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• I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happens, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.

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  Real, Thinking, Fiction

  Interview with C.J. Darlington, Miriam Parker, Deena Peterson, Melissa J. Carswell, www.titletrakk.com.

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• I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.

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  Letting Go, Jobs, Writing

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• When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitation that this entailed. Even though we have always been present in this created universe, we now became flesh and blood. It would be like this bird (a jay), whose nature it is to fly, choosing to only walk and remain grounded. He doesn't stop being a bird, but it does alter his experience of life significantly.

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  Son, Blood, Bird

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• When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness. Authority as you usually think of it, is merely the excues the strone ones use to make others conform to what they want.

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  Thinking, Independence, Use

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• Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy

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  Honesty, Sometimes, Shack

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• Mackenzie, you cannot produce trust, just as you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not. Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. Because you do not know that I love you, you cannot trust me.

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  Love You, Humility, Fruit

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• Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

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  Perception, Emotion, Paradigm

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• All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.

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  Relationship, Jobs, People

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• You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

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  Humility, Like You, Shack

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• Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

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  Strong, Thinking, Use

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, May, 2007.

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• You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

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  Children, Color, Games

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• You do understand," she continued, "that unless I had an object to love -- or, more accurately, a someone to love -- if I did not have such a relationship within myself, then I would not be capable of love at all? You would have a god who could not love. Or maybe worse, you would have a god who, when he chose, could love only as a limitation of his nature.

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  Objects, Ifs, Capable

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• Women, in general, will find it difficult to turn from a man and stop demanding that he meets their needs, provides security, and protects their identity, and return to me. Men, in general, find it very hard to turn from the works of their hands, their own quests for power and security and significance, and turn to me.

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  Men, Hands, Identity

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• The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

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  Independence, Normal, Will Power

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• Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence

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  Father, Parenting, Broken

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