If we skip the step of growing and cultivating in a local church we export an impotent message with little effect. The Apostles walked into cities and villages with the utmost confidence in the potency and power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ because they drank deeply themselves. The church is where we drink deeply of the Gospel and are transformed by the power of His Blood and Spirit.
-- ryan matchett
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3.5.09
through the children's gate -- adam gopnik
...Check for what? I think secretly. That they are breathing, as Martha does? That they are safe? But what could that mean? Though I tell them they are safe, none of us really knows what safety is, or means, or looks like when it is asleep.
I realize, in the middle of the night, that the love I feel for the children is not at every moment remote enough from the need I feel for them;
all the discipline I attempt to prepare to let them go into their own world, where they make up their own minds and fly away on their own wings, gets lost when I look at them. I want them here, safe, I want them this age forever, I want this situation -- two small children puzzled and, on the whole, happy at home, in a big city, not to change, even though I know that the parent's task is building up and letting go.
I realize, in the middle of the night, that the love I feel for the children is not at every moment remote enough from the need I feel for them;
all the discipline I attempt to prepare to let them go into their own world, where they make up their own minds and fly away on their own wings, gets lost when I look at them. I want them here, safe, I want them this age forever, I want this situation -- two small children puzzled and, on the whole, happy at home, in a big city, not to change, even though I know that the parent's task is building up and letting go.
