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Praise for Windows of the Soul Every once in a while a book comes along that makes you stop and think---and then think some more---like Ken Gire's wonderful book Windows of the Soul. ---John Trent in Christian Parenting Today Ken Gire has created a book that gently pours forth, like water... read more
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“"Pray without ceasing," Paul tells us.Tennyson tells us why. "More things are wrought by prayer than this workl dreams of....for so the whole round earth is every way bound by gold chains about the feet of God."...I understood, even in the wilderness, that God is sovereign. But He is a soverign in chains. I didn't understand that until I read Tennyson. God has ordained His kingdom to come, but He has ordained it to come on the links of our prayers.Maybe that is how every good thing from heaven comes.A chain of events forged from theseemingly inconsequential links of our prayers.A collective pull”
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“If we are to love our neighbors,” says Frederick Buechner, “before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as with our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces.”
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To respect something is to understand that there is something there to see, that it is not all surface, that something lies beneath the surface, something that has the power to change the way we think or feel, something that may prove so profound a revelation as to change not only how we look at our lives but how we live them.
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I know a wheel is starting to fall off when the meal I’m preparing becomes more important than the people I’m preparing it for. When my work becomes more important than the family I’m working for. When a point I’m making becomes more important than the person I’m making it to. That’s how I can I tell I’ve lost the still axis. When I lose sight of what’s more important. When I lose a sense of the sacredness of another human being, especially the human beings closest to me, the ones in my family.
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if the soul is somehow shut off from God, shielded from the sunshine of its eternal significance, it will seek significance elsewhere, sending out its roots in search of the right job, the right school, the right organizations to join, burrowing deeper, thinking if it gets enough money, enough power, enough prestige, it will satisfy its longing for significance.
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Someone once said that the spiritual significance of something is in inverse proportion to the publicity surrounding it. A publicized event, like a parade, is more spectacular than it is significant. And that is true even if the parade is a religious one.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh suggests we strive “to be the still axis within the revolving wheel of relationships, obligations, and activities.”
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“All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks,” said Malcolm Muggeridge; “the art of life is to get the message.” To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.
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I believe that if it is a thing that makes us truly glad, then it is a good thing and it is our thing and it is the calling voice that we were made to answer with our lives.”
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Neither can we see God in His glory. It must be veiled or it would blind us. And so He comes to us in ways that our senses can take Him in without injury, which is always less than He is. And this helped me understand why God speaks to us in the ways He sometimes does.
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We live in a constant tension between those two parts, the lofty side of our nature and the lowly side. Like a tree, we are torn between two worlds, a part of us rooted in the soil, another part reaching for the sky. But because our roots can grasp soil more securely than our leaves can grasp sky, the soil seems more real. It is something we can see and hold in our hand. But heaven, heaven escapes our grasp. We can’t hold it any more than a leaf can hold sky.
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God stretched out the heavens, stippling the night with impressionistic stars.
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