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• Our earth is like a child who has grown up without parents, having no one to guide her... Some have attempted to help her but most have simply tried to use her. Humans, who have been given the task to lovingly steer the world, instead plunder her with no consideration, other than their immediate needs. And they give little thought for their own children who will inherit their lack of love. So they use her and abuse her with little consideration and then when she shudders of blows her breath. They are offended and raise their fist at God.

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  Children, Blow, Giving

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

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  Enemy, Obscurity, Controversy

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• I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.

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  Heart, Issues, Stuff

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• Jesus picked up the conversation. "As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free to simply 'be' in relationship with Me and one another. If you had trully learned to regard one another's concerns as significant as your own, there would be no need for hierarchy.

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  Jesus, Would Be, Needs

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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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• And the Law that once contained impossible demands -- Thou Shalt Not... -- actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you.

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  Law, Promise, Demand

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

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  Perception, Emotion, Paradigm

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• Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy

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  Honesty, Sometimes, Shack

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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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• 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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• It's quite simple really. Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away until they simple no longer matter. That is why Elousia is such a wonderful name. God, who is the ground of all being, dwells in, around, and through all things-ultimately emerging as the real-and appearances that mask that reality will fall away.

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  Real, Fall, Simple

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• Does that mean," asked Mack, "that all roads will lead to you?" "Not at all," smiled Jesus..."Most roads don't lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you.

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  Jesus, Mean, Doe

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• Did I hear God call me an idiot?

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  Idiot, Call Me

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• Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst correctional facilities will often first take out their own rage on those who have caused suffering to children. Even in such a world of relative morality, causing harm to a child is still considered absolutely wrong. Period!

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  Inspirational, Children, Pain

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• But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.

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  Night, Enough, Lost

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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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• 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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• Why do children love to hide and seek? Ask any person who has a passion to explore and discover and create. The choice to hide so many wonders from you is an act of love that is a gift inside the process of life.

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  Children, Passion, Choices

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