I was walking around Marlwood this morning listening to my friend Paul talk’n.

Here’s some stuff Paul said that resonated with me and rung true…

“Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.”

“Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later.”

“God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.”

“In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians.”

“Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.”

“Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.”

“It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.”

“For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.”

“Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.”

– Paul