we need not avoid our active lives,...

we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.

- Sue Monk Kidd

God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved

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He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

- Sue Monk Kidd

I said, "Where's all that delivering God's supposed to do?"He snorted. "You're right, the only deliverance is the one we get for ourselves. The Lord doesn't have any hands and feet but ours.""That doesn't say much for the Lord.""It doesn't say much for us, either.

- Sue Monk Kidd

...he felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of him.

- Sue Monk Kidd

Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning.

- Sue Monk Kidd

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.

- Sue Monk Kidd

The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.

- Sue Monk Kidd

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