Jesus says, "Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow me." He says, "The first shall be last and the last shall be first, " and infuriating things like "if you seek to find your life you will lose it but those who lose their life will find it." And every single time I die to something–my notions of my own specialness, my plans and desires for something to be a very particular way–every single time I fight it and yet every single time I discover more life and more freedom than if I had gotten what I wanted. Nadia BolzWeber
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