What do you call a soldier without an army? (Deserter) What do you call a child without a family? (Orphan) What do you call a fish without water? (Dead) What do you call a Christian without a Church? [all the above]
The Church is the powerful forming or shaping of God's People to establish His kingdom on the earth. QDM
"Not all who wander are lost!" JRR Tolkien
True, whole prayer is nothing but love! St. Augustine
To journey without being changed is to be a nomad, To change without journeying is to be a chameleon, To journey and be transformed by the journey is to be a pilgrim. (Mark Nepo, The Exquisite Risk)
In every encounter, God asks "Adam, where are you? Where do you stand? How is it with you?" To answer this question, a person must be willing, lucid, transparent. Once someone has left behind the habitual prayers of childhood and has entered into the personal encounter, there is no way back. He must live in the light of God and expose and entrust himself to the light ever more unconditionally. (Adrienne Von Speyr)
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