Real Live Preacher

My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.

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No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.

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Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.

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It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.

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When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.

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Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less.

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External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or even incompetence.

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This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you’re doing, or it comes out flat. You can’t fake your way through this.

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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

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Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.

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Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

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Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family.

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Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.

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See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.

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Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.

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The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, you will eventually lose touch with your own humanity

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

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There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.

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One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case as it comes to us. We are not robots who are forced into behaviors by their programming. We see things; we think about things; and we choose our course of action or beliefs appropriately. And as long as that remains true of us, we will live every day of our lives on one slippery slope or another. There is no reason to fear this.

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The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.

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Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

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