“For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will

save it.”

                                                                                    -Mark 8:35

“To be where God is – to follow Jesus – means going beyond the limits of our own comfort and safety.  It means receiving our lives as gifts instead of guarding them as our own possessions.  It means sharing the life we have been given instead of bottling it for our own consumption.  It means giving up the notion that we can build dams to contain the bright streams of our lives and letting them go instead, letting them swell their banks and spill their wealth until they carry us down to where they run, full and growing fuller, into the wide and glittering sea.”

                                                                        -Barbara Brown Taylor