Sublime

What I found was that it was the prayers and practices of the church that allowed me to hold to—or rather to be held by—God when little else seemed sturdy, to hold to the Christian story even when I found no satisfying answers.

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practice calls us into a

Our bodies are instruments of worship.

what we need is to learn a way of being-in-the-world that transforms us, day by day, by the rhythms of repentance and faith. We need to learn the slow habits of loving God and those around us.

We live in the meantime.

I began to feel like the sort of Christianity that I gravitated toward only required my brain.

The only thing that makes the church endurable is that somehow it is the body of Christ, and on this we are fed.”7