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Our small days lived graciously and faithfully will bear fruit we can't yet see.
Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary
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dk-thrive · 10 months
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we’re all “looking for someone looking for us
In “The Life We’re Looking For,” I define a person as a heart-soul-mind-strength complex designed for love. The world we’ve built using technology is less and less good for the most important thing about us, which is our design for love. From the moment we come into the world, what we are most looking for, most in need of, most designed to learn to give and receive from others, is love — intimate, profound, mutual relationships of giving and receiving, even at great cost to ourselves. That is truly what love is. In the psychiatrist Curt Thompson’s beautiful phrase, we’re all “looking for someone looking for us.” None of us were born looking for a screen. We were all born looking for a face.
— Andy Crouch, from “Nurturing Our Relationships in a Digital World” (The New York Times · Interviewed by Tish Harrison Warren · June 4, 2023)
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the-end-of-art · 2 years
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From Prayer in the Night by Tish Harrison Warren.
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humorwithatwist · 9 days
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The Books Most Responsible
Some time ago, a friend of mine shared a list of her “books most responsible” for who she is and how she thinks, and I found myself wondering which books might appear on my list. I’ve read many books (and have many, many more that I want to read), some of which have undoubtedly shaped me in some meaningful way and then been lost to the porous sands of my mind. But upon reflection, I believe…
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gods-blade · 1 month
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"...we don't ask for a creator who can explain himself. We ask for a friend in time of grief, a true judge in times of perplexity, a wider hope than we can manage in time of despair. " If we suffer deeply, he says, there is no explanation, no reason, no answer that can ease our heartbreak. "The only comfort that can do anything--and probably the most it can do is help you endure, or if you cannot endure to fail and fold without wholly hating yourself--is the comfort of feeling yourself loved."
Tish Warren, Prayer in the Night
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bobonbooks · 1 year
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Review: A Just Passion
A Just Passion: A Six Week Lenten Journey, Ruth Haley Barton, Sheila Wise Rowe, Tish Harrison Warren, Terry M. Wildman, and others. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2022. Summary: A six week Lenten devotional consisting of brief excerpts from works by InterVarsity Press authors, scripture readings, and breath prayers, considering how, in the passion of Christ, we lament the injustices of the…
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thebirdandhersong · 1 year
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"Madeleine L'Engle said that any good work of art is more and better than the artist. Shakespeare, she said, "wrote better than he could write; Bach composed more deeply, more truly than he knew; Rembrandt's brush put more of the human spirit on canvas than Rembrandt could comprehend. A gardener cannot make daffodils grow, nor can a baker force the alchemic glory of yeast and sugar. And yet we are given means of grace that we can practice, whether we feel like it or not, and these carry us. Craftsmen - writers, brewers, dancers, potters - show up and work, and they participate in a mystery. They take up a craft, again and again, on bad days and good, waiting for a flash of mercy, a gift of grace."
— Prayer in the Night, Tish Harrison Warren
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ainsi-soit-il · 8 months
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We tend to want a Christian life with the dull bits cut out. Yet God made us to spend our days in rest, work, and play, taking care of our bodies, our families, our neighborhoods, our homes. What if all these boring parts matter to God? What if days passed in ways that feel small and insignificant to us are weighty with meaning and part of the abundant life that God has for us?
Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary.
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aqueerfriend · 6 months
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"The hope God offers us is this: he will keep close to us, even in darkness, in doubt, in fear and vulnerability. He does not promise to keep bad things from happening. He does not promise that night will not come, or that it will not be terrifying, or that we will immediately be tugged to shore. He promises that we will not be left alone. He will keep watch with us in the night."
- Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night
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letsbeapoemtogether · 3 months
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Our small days lived graciously and faithfully will bear fruit we can't yet see.
Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary
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brown-little-robin · 9 months
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hey @zelzahdarkcloak, stealing this from you, love you, thanks!
🐭 last song: Life Itself (Glass Animals) — (that's my Theme Song for Clown World!!!!)
🐭 last show: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood! — (I'm rewatching this intense anime war story, don't laugh, as my bedtime story. I know everything that happens, but it's exciting enough to me that it's a Treat and Motivational for Bedtime!)
🐭 currently reading: ummm.... the epistle of James semi-consistently... whatever fanfiction Nightwing sends me... The Graveyard Book, if I can ever find the book again, I lost it in the middle of reading it—and I just finished re-reading the Murderbot Diaries on audiobook!! I'm sad to be done with that series (again), but now I'm resuming the last Harry Potter audiobook and hesitantly starting Tish Harrison Warren's Prayer in the Night.
🐭 current obsessions: W R I T I N G. Writing my fanfic The Strange Redemption of Thaddeus Thawne, expanding my Clown World original world and stories, semi-roleplaying Tim Drake with a friend's oc... yeah. Also, I've been making lots of sculptures. LOTS of SCULPTURES. OH AND CLOWNS. you would not BELIEVE the amount of research I've been doing on clowns. I fell in love with them headfirst this summer.
"if you feel like it" tags for @swinging-stars-from-satellites, @bluesidedown, @lovesodeepandwideandwell, @called-kept, @lady-stormbraver, @spacekrakens, and anyone else who wants to do this game!
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In these moments of my day—losing keys, losing patience, snapping at those I love, slamming the dishwasher door—I can respond with self-condemnation, self-justification, or repentance... The practice of confession and absolution must find its way into the small moments of sinfulness in my day. When it does, the Gospel—grace itself—seeps into my day, and these moments are transformed. They're no longer meaningless interruptions, sheer failure and lostness and brokenness. Instead, they're moments of redemption and remembering, moments to grow bit by bit in trusting Jesus' work on my behalf.
Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary
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dk-thrive · 8 months
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I am exhausted by the rancor.
I hunger for a transcendent reality — the good, the true, the beautiful, those things which somehow lie beyond mere argument. Yet often, as a writer, a pastor and simply a person online, I find that my life is dominated by debate, controversy and near strangers in shouting matches about politics or church doctrine. This past year in particular was marked by vitriol and divisiveness. I am exhausted by the rancor.
In this weary and vulnerable place, poetry whispers of truths that cannot be confined to mere rationality or experience. In a seemingly wrecked world, I’m drawn to Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Autumn” and recall that “there is One who holds this falling/Infinitely softly in His hands.”... I think a particular gift of poetry for our moment is that good poems reclaim the power and grace of words.
Indeed, in our age of social media, words are often used as weapons. Poetry instead treats words with care. They are slowly fashioned into lanterns — things that can illuminate and guide. Debate certainly matters. Arguments matter. But when the urgent controversies of the day seem like all there is to say about life and death or love or God, poetry reminds me of those mysterious truths that can’t be reduced solely to linear thought...
In one of my very favorite poems, “Pied Beauty,” Gerard Manley Hopkins writes of a beauty that is “past change.” In this world where our political, technological and societal landscape shifts at breakneck speed, many of us still quietly yearn for a beauty beyond change. Poetry stands then as a kind of collective cry beckoning us beyond that which even our best words can say.
— Tish Harrison Warren, from “Why Poetry Is So Crucial Right Now” (NY, Times, Aug. 29, 2021)
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9 people you want to get to know better
Thank you for the tag, @chief-of-restless-hearts !
Three Ships: (disclaimer that my favorite fictional relationships are almost never the romantic ones) Peter/El - White Collar, Percy/Marguerite - The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Artham/Arundel - The Wingfeather Saga.
1st Ship: this was undoubtedly Mitch/Connie from Adventures in Odyssey. I went down with that ship and I can write fics and essays about it still. XD
Last Song: "Patience" by Wilder Woods.
Last Movie: rewatched The Bourne Legacy.
Currently Reading: my reading has been so bad this year. Still finishing Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund (almost done!), rereading Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C S Lewis, The Problem of Pain by C S Lewis, Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren.
Currently Watching: not a lot. Occasional rewatches of episodes of White Collar and Numb3rs. Also need to finish Mash and Leverage.
Currently Consuming: I am taking this to mean food? In which case black bean chips and apple sauce as the tail end of my lunch lol.
Currently Craving: anything with cinnamon. Also chicken. I left my chicken at home on accident and had a cheese sandwich for lunch whoops.
Tagging time!
Just gonna peg a few recent followers so please ignore me if you want, but also anybody else feel free to join the fun: @songs-of-stones @tarvastries @voyager-into-the-unknown @prayerandzoloft @passarosnoceu @scarvenartist @mookybear12404 @noisette-tornade @fifteen-fathoms-and-counting
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humorwithatwist · 16 days
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The Difficulty is the Point
“The difficulty is the point…. Sometimes we need the difficulty to get us to slow down and look at ourselves.” James K.A. Smith (How to Inhabit Time, xv) Right now, parenting has me at something of an impasse. One of my children (who will remain nameless) is struggling to routinely accomplish a normal, everyday task. We have coached them through this task, helped show them how it’s done, offered…
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e-louise-bates · 8 months
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9 people tag game
Thanks @rowenabean for the tag!
last song: The High Kings' Irish Pub Song came up while coming home from work this morning, and both Joy and I sang along at the top of our lungs. I keep teasing her that she should use that as her audition song for the high school musical this fall. She said her chorus teacher would probably enjoy it as a change from all the pop music everyone else does.
last movie: I had to really stretch my memory for this, but I think it was How to Steal a Million about a month or so ago. So much fun! Leverage ought to have done a take-off episode of that.
currently watching: Clone Wars! The only fiction tv show that Grace has ever liked! She actually ASKS to watch it, as opposed to her usual m.o, which is moaning about having to watch something whenever we have a family tv/movie night. So far (we just started Season 3) both girls like Anakin more than any other character (but Mace Windu is definitely the coolest Jedi), and they're both pretty certain Chancellor Palpatine is Darth Sidious but they don't want us to tell them for sure one way or the other (the Zillo beast episodes cemented their suspicions), and they think Ahsoka is ok but they're not quite sure why she's Carl's favorite Star Wars character of all time (just wait until you've watched the entire series, we keep telling them).
currently reading: Boundaries, by Henry Cloud and John Townsend; Prayer in the Night, by Tish Warren Harrison; a re-read of Between Cases, by W.R. Gingell. And the textbook for my computer class, which is horribly boring and I can't be bothered looking up the title (and no, I don't remember the title off the top of my head despite having been reading it all summer--it's just that boring).
last thing researched for writing purposes: For writing purposes, common woodland birds that might be seen in September in Britain (I went with a kestrel, in case you're curious). (I've also been doing a lot of research into election laws in Oregon, but that's for my editing client, not for my own writing.)
tagging @rockinlibrarian even though she's most likely already done this, and anyone who hasn't done this yet and has been wistfully wishing someone would tag them. You're it.
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