#truefaced

[lanceschaubert]

Quick Crits

Quick Crits (a rapid-fire of what I'm reading) http://wp.me/pWwvH-nq #goodreads #amreading

A full review of Dekker’s new book is coming. Actually, it’s more of a scathing flogging of Dekker’s new book. Until then, here’s what I’ve read/am reading of late:

Brutal. Hilarious. Sobering. I won’t read Slaughterhouse Fiveagain, but I’m glad to have read it once. All the happy parts make you cry. All the sad parts make you giggle. It’s that kind of bitter satire. I only laughed at four…

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[odetotheimperfections]

We cannot profoundly influence others, without maturing.

We cannot mature without finding resolution to our sin issues.

We cannot find resolution to our sin issues without trusting who God says we are.

[drifting-on-a-tendril-of-thought]

The heart is not safe when worn on the sleeve

Why may I not feel? Too great a display of any emotion And I am faced with your accusatory glare. After all, who am I, to feel? Who am I, to struggle with myself? Who am I to be not okay? Not someone who is allowed to express those things. Forgive my lapse in judgement. In my struggle towards authenticity I forgot that the mask must be worn at home. After all. Nothing is wrong. Why would it? We're just fine here, In the Room of Good Intentions. I cannot dawdle here any longer. How I long to dwell in the Room of Grace.

[contemplativevoyage]

[wild-as-elle]

One of the greatest gifts we can offer another person is a safe place to fail.

Bill Thrall, TrueFaced

[outofthedesert]

What value, then, flows from the motive of Trusting God? When our motive is Trusting God, our value will be Living Out of Who God Says I Am. Have we already been changed? Yes. As day is from night, we have changed. We have received a new heart, for crying out loud! We have a brand-new core identity. We have already been changed, and now we get to mature into who we already are.

TrueFaced, Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol, John Lynch

[anduvinkel]

[olterman]

safe is just nice and sweet, where everybody’s smiling at you and nobody’s ever dealing with nothing, that’s not safe. That’s a retirement home.

Lynch et al. Bo's Café