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When People Are Big and God Is Small
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The Attentive Life
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The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
The Pressure’s Off
Gospel Treason
The Gospel Comes With a House Key
Nobody’s Cuter Than You


Quotes

  • “The first and most basic thing we can and must do is to keep God before our minds. This is the fundamental secret of caring for our souls. Our part in thus practicing the presence of God is to direct and redirect our minds constantly to Him. In the early time of our “practicing” we may well be challenged by our burdensome habits of dwelling on things less than God. But these are habits—not the law of gravity—and can be broken. A new, grace-filled habit will replace the former ones as we take intentional steps toward keeping God before us. Soon our minds will return to God as the needle of a compass constantly returns to the north. If God is the great longing of our souls, He will become the pole star of our inward beings.” Dallas Willard
  • “Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” Dallas Willard
  • “An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.” GK Chesterton
  • “Wash the plate not because it is dirty nor because you are told to wash it, but because you love the person who will use it next.” St. Teresa of Calcutta
  • “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” G.K. Chesterton
  • “Radically ordinary hospitality is this: using your Christian home in a daily way that seeks to make strangers neighbors, and neighbors family of God. It brings glory to God, serves others, and lives out the gospel in word and deed.” Rosaria Butterfield, #
  • “Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.” Eugene Peterson
  • “The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.” Dallas Willard
  • “If you are what you love, and love is a habit, then discipleship is a rehabituation of your loves. This means that discipleship is more a matter of reformation than of acquiring information.” James K.A. Smith
  • “True restfulness, though, is a form of awareness, a way of being in life. It is living ordinary life with a sense of ease, gratitude, appreciation, peace and prayer. We are restful when ordinary life is enough.” Ronald Rolheiser
  • “Let gospel reality in your head fuel gospel fervency in your heart that leads to gospel urgency in your life.” David Platt
  • “Prayer is the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.” Andrew Murray
  • “A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.” Dallas Willard
  • “It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” Henry David Thoreau
  • “Nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.” Pedro Arrupe
  • “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” John Mark Comer
  • “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” John Muir
  • “We live the given life, and not the planned.” Wendell Berry
  • “There is only today, with holes in our pockets, with time spilling out. We cannot keep it for tomorrow. We cannot mend our seams to hoard, save, carry. Ask a bird how to fly, and it might tell you to remove the weight from your wings.” Erin Loechner
  • “Maturity is learning how to start when you feel like procrastinating and learning how to listen when you feel like talking.” James Clear
  • “Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God, but only he who sees takes off his shoes; the rest sit round and pluck blackberries.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Winston Churchill
  • “Everything outside of God in Christ is saltwater, and it only leaves you thirstier than you were before.” Brad Bigney
  • “We’re all broken, all walk with a limp. Here is the truth about you and me: even when in a far-off country, wasted life, stripped bare, smeared, squandered, nothing but scar tissue and shameful, self-inflicted wounds, the love of the Father finds the son and daughter.” Charles Martin
  • “Everything we say or do will either illuminate or obscure the character of God. Sanctification is the process of joyfully growing luminous.” Jen Wilkin
  • “You can’t think yourself out of a pattern you didn’t think yourself into. You practiced yourself into it, so you have to practice your way out.” Justin Earley, #
  • “We practice simplicity when we intentionally arrange our life around God—what he is doing in us and in this world—and let the rest drop off.” Jan Johnson
  • “To steward the habits of your family is to steward the hearts of your family.” Justin Earley, #
  • “If there’s a formula for a happy life, it’s quite simple – inhabit the moment.” John Mark Comer

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I'm Chelsea... a wife, mom and friend passionate about cultivating a rich life with God.

This blog is equal parts family stories, faith reflections and creative delight.

I read a lot. I eat peanut butter every day. I like shopping secondhand. I love hosting people in our home.

Writing helps me pay attention, and paying attention keeps me grateful.

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