So Ive figured out what I am going to do with this thread. Instead of my own musings, I am going to pass off some of my favorite passages from the books that I'm reading. Ive been reading like crazy lately and I'm coming across some really good stuff. Currently I'm reading Messy Spirituality.
"What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed up people could be godly. What drove Jesus' enemies crazy were his criticisms of the "perfect" religious people and his acceptance of the imperfect nonreligious people. The shocking implication of Jesus' ministry is that anyone can be spiritual.
Scandalous? maybe.
Maybe truth is scandalous. Maybe the scandal is that all of us are in some condition of not-togetherness, even those of us who are trying to be godly. Maybe we're all a mess, not only sinful messy but inconsistent messy, up-and-down messy, in-and-out messy, now-I-believe-now-I-don't-believe messy, I-get-it-now-I-don't-get-it messy, I-understand-uh-now-I-don't-understand messy...
...Accepting the reality of our broken flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws but because we let go of seeking perfection and, instead, seek God, the one who is present in the tangeldness of our lives. Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness."
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