Friday, December 08, 2006

Living Large

I'll make a list of God's gracious dealings, all the things God has done that need praising. Isaiah 63:7, The Message

"There are tendencies within us and forces outside us that relentlessly reduce God to a checklist of explanations, or a handbook of moral precepts, or an economic arrangement, or a political expediency, or a pleasure boat. God is reduced to what can be measured, used, weighed, gathered, controlled, or felt. Insofar as we accept these reductionist explanations, our lives become bored, depressed, or mean. We live stunted like acorns in a terrarium. But oak trees need soil, sun, rain, and wind."

Reversed Thunder


God's Message for Each Day by Eugene Peterson.

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