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Friends and partners in love with the people of God, we must repent for treating others so much like fuel for our machines. We must confess that we have often looked over the weak, and made demands of the strong just so we could accomplish what we thought was the great thing. There is more to the kingdom of God than just delivering messages and conducting meetings.
Orphan Slave Son
Ben Pasley
Or perhaps we take seriously the act of going to bed and asking, How am I going to end this thing? Shall we lie awake in bed, letting all the replay tapes run? Shall we browse our phones for some recent celebrity scandal to bounce meaninglessly around our brain? Or shall we walk intentionally toward the rest we know we need? No one can sleep while believing that she needs to keep the world spinning. But real rest comes when we thank God that we don’t need to, because he does. Thus we kneel by the bed and place the period of God’s mercy and care for us at the end of the day.
The Common Rule
Justin Whitmel Earley
Going through the motions, as every dancer knows, can be an important thing to do.
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