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Losing & Gaining Time

So.. it's been awhile since my last post. More than awhile, I might add. A pandemic came and gone, When you've gone from a mentee to a mentor? I became a husband, a friend and a lover. In the midst of renovating a place I can call home. What I once thought was a lifetime away, Didn't expect to be living in an answered prayer. But that boy in me still finds solace, In typing his words here. Even as his own story gets forgotten, Many more stories unfold. A piece of myself can always be found, Near the map of tiny perfect things. And the only one that could bring me to the 4th (& the fold) Is none other than You, Lord.

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Grieving the shocking loss of Rachel Held Evans, who died this morning after health complications at 37 years old. Her writing and voice was a source of comfort and guidance for me in a shaky time when I was falling out of love with the church, wrestling with doubt, and experiencing the loneliness of having a huge part of my identity (my faith) start to deconstruct. Her words keep me sane, remind me I’m not alone, and gives me the courage to keep showing up. She was bold, smart, and wise. She gave me hope that one day I could return to a faith community. Her book Searching for Sunday was one that my husband and I read before bed and discussed as we fell asleep in our first year of marriage. I still need to read her newest book, Inspired. She will continue to inspire me. I will miss her so much, though, as so many will. She leaves behind her husband and two babies. The last article she wrote on her blog was on Ash Wednesday, and I’m so stunned by the last sentences of that post– “Death is a part of life. My prayer for you this season is that you make time to celebrate that reality, and to grieve that reality, and that you will know you are not alone. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” As simple as it is profound.

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Perhaps the most radical thing we followers of Jesus can do in the information age is treat each other like humans—not heroes, not villains, not avatars, not statuses, not Republicans, not Democrats, not Calvinists, not Emergents—just humans. This wouldn’t mean we would stop disagreeing, but I think it would mean we would disagree well.

Rachel Held Evans (via yesdarlingido)

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I explained that when our gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender friends aren’t welcome at the table, then we don’t feel welcome either, and that not every young adult gets married or has children, so we need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.

Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church (via yesdarlingido)