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Preposterous true promise: "I will bless you... you will be a blessing" (Gen. 2:14) – at Shawnee, KS

Two spheres of pride: self-regard, self-condemnation. The place to be: not in between but in a sweet still place of gazing up, gazing out... – at Lenexa, KS

"God, lover of souls... Complete thy creature dear O where it fails, Being mighty a master, being a father and fond." (G M Hopkins) – at Shawnee, KS

"I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey." - C. S. Lewis – at Shawnee, KS

“God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.” - Augustine

Kim, that well-meaning text was meant for Peter.

I can do that.

"At Christmas I no more desire a rose than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; but like of each thing that in season grows." Shakespeare

WORLD | Fifty Shades of Grey | Megan Basham | March 7, 2015: worldmag.com/2015/02/fifty_s… (Good review of a movie I'll never see)

"The bored are quick to make peace with sin." - Tony Reinke

"for Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the father through the features of men's faces." – at Shawnee, KS

"...the just man justices;/ keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;/ acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is -/Christ..." - Hopkins – at Shawnee, KS

Grace: Children who usually make us look like better parents than we are. – at Shawnee, KS

"Yes, ask what Thou wilt, any hopes, any joys of human affection, any rewards of love, but let not love depart..." - Amy Carmichael, If – at Shawnee, KS

"...Jesus of Calvary, smitten for me, Ask what Thou wilt, but give Love to me" - Amy Carmichael, If – at Shawnee, KS

"He will allure her, He will pursuer her and call her out To the wilderness with flowers in His hand..." - Shane Barnard

"God works powerfully but for the most part, gently and gradually." -John Newton

It's Response Sunday at Cornerstone, a time of spiritual photosynthesis: the light of God's word made food for a growing tree, His body.