Welcome to the Sunday Evening Sofa! (from the Small Stories about Big Things newsletter)
Each edition you receive a couple of quotes and one question.
My hope? Maybe you can lean back onto your Sunday evening sofa with…
a bit more encouragement,
a bit more calm,
and a helpful thought or two sitting with your soul.
QUOTES
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
- Barbara Kingsolver
As long as we’re wedded to results, we’ll take on smaller and smaller tasks, the only ones that yield results. If we want to live by values like love, truth, and justice – values that will never be fully achieved – ‘faithfulness’ is the only standard that will do. When I die, I won’t be asking about the bottom line. I’ll be asking if I was faithful to my gifts.
- Parker Palmer
QUESTION
What is your next faithful step under the roof of hope?
My next faithful hope is to lead C to a place where she knows God loves her and is able to forgive the woundings she has experienced. Will you pray for that?