Inspiration

God gets in the dirt three times that I can think of:

• To create Adam
• To bury Moses, and
• To defend a woman caught in adultery.

God is with us in the joy of birth, the pain of death and kneels beside us in our shame.

We can rest.

God can handle our dirt.

"Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling."

- Miguel de Unamuno

A woman named Vicki once knew a young person at church named Betty.

Betty always seemed effervescent and happy, although Vicki knew she had faced struggles in her life. Her long-awaited marriage had quickly ended in divorce. She had struggled to get a grip on her single life. She hadn't chosen it, but she decided she would live it with utmost enjoyment and satisfaction. Betty was active in Sunday school, in the choir, as a leader of the junior high girls' group, and in the church renewal movement. Vicki enjoyed knowing Betty. Betty's whole face seemed to smile.

One day Vicki asked Betty, "How is it that you are always so happy, you have so much energy, and you never seem to get down?"

"Did they lie to you about who they were? Or did you lie to yourself about who they were?"

- attr. Seokhoon, Insider