Wit, Wonder, & Wisdom of the Week

"Congratulations on completing the academic portion of this program. I will see you again at GRADUATION." -Dr. Querry

"Definitely friends forever. Maybe we should get bracelets and make it official?" -Tara

"Suppose one has a broken jaw, because that one was kicked in the face..." -Phillip

"I will crush your bones if we don't hang soon." -Daniel

"The kids respect you more when you admit you don't know." -the teachers in my CG
"Yeah, authenticity isn't quite as valued in medicine. Saying, 'Good question, let's google it' usually doesn't go over well." -me

"Life would be so much easier as a dog." -Tara

"It's okay that your life isn't exactly what you pictured. Nobody's is. And it's okay to not be 100% satisfied with that. Take time to mourn those unmet expectations. Then close the book. Move on with God's plan for your life, trusting that HIS plan is much better than YOUR plan." -Lori


Everbody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them -John Ortberg

"EVERYBODY comes with a mat." pg 47

Roof Crashers: describing the men carrying the paralytic to see Jesus
"Then one guy gets an idea, probably the youngest guy, the tattooed and pierced guy because he's an outside-of-the-box thinker." pg 49

"The irony of the masks is that although we wear them to make other people think well of us, they are drawn to us only when we take them off." pg 80

"Non-forgiveness costs YOUR heart...you start out holding a grudge, but in the end the grudge holds you." pg 165

"People who love authentic community always prefer the pain of temporary chaos to the peace of permanent superficiality." pg 181

"We complicate our faith and lives in many ways, but at the core, our purpose is simple: we are called to love." pg 214

"Jesus is ruler over Harvard and Oxford and TEXAS A&M." pg 231


Ruthless Trust -Brennan Manning

"The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future." pg 12

"Of what avail is our life of prayer, our study of Scripture, theology, and spirituality, if we do not trust the insights that we have received?" pg 20

"The more we let go of our concepts and images which always limit God, the bigger God grows and the more we approach the mystery of his indefinability." pg 56

"The kabod Yahweh, the absolute glory of God, is revealed in Jesus as absolute love, and we can only be brushed by it. Nevertheless, we are made for that which is too big for us. We are made for God, and nothing less will ever satisfy us." pg 103

"Our disappointments arise from presuming to know the outcome of a particular endeavor." pg 139

"It is through immersion in the ordinary --the apparently empty, trivial, and meaningless experiences of a routine day-- that life/Life is encountered and lived." pg 156

"How glorious the splendor of a human heart which trusts that it is loved!" pg 148