“Sometimes griefs are keepsakes from a place you’ve never been.”

- Christian Wiman, “Zero at the Bone”

“The goal of confrontation is always restoration and repentance. The goal is not for the other person to think you’re so tough - so good at truth telling.”

- E.M. Welcher #SermonNotes

Maher is being honest about evil, including his own evil viewpoint.

Debating the number of weeks until a person matters has never made any ethical sense. And it certainly makes no moral sense. No Christian sense.

“You’re never gonna be who God wants you to be if you run away from hardship.”

- E.M. Welcher #SermonNotes

“But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.”

(1 Peter 4:7-9)

I wouldn’t know about most celebrity pastors if it weren’t for Twitter. One point deducted from Gryffindor.

Me: *trying to put together baby Richard’s bassinet*

“Ugh, I give up!”

H (2 yrs): “I so sorry.”

*climbs into my lap and looks right into my face*

“You not giving up. I help you!”

My gracious Master and my God,
assist me to proclaim,
to spread thro' all the earth abroad
the honors of your name.

Jesus! the name that charms our fears,
that bids our sorrows cease,
'tis music in the sinner's ears,
'tis life and health and peace.

-Charles Wesley

The days are golden, here in the everlasting prairie. Rachel Joy Welcher

Pregnancy is so weird. One day every dish sounds repulsive, and the next day I want to eat the world.

Six years ago, I sat down with Christine Hoover to talk about my crumbling life, still held by God.

E.M. Welcher and I had been married just 6 months.

My life is so different now. But I hold these wounds and mercies in my body every day.

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setting a Studebaker hubcap down to catch overflow from the gutter in this extraordinarily hard rain
which has filled the birdbaths & the outdoor pets bowl
& set the metal sailboat wind chime in the lilac to
sounding like a bouy in the harbor of new grass &
wildflowers.

For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
—Philippians 3:18-19

The skeletal hand of a 7-week-old embryo.

What an amazing clump of cells.

#human #HumanityFirst

Beautiful.

How it's done, ladies. 😆

Rachel's letters to her daughter are exquisite.