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Michael Gungor

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I craft sound to open the heart

Highland Park, Los Angeles

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Michael Gungor

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Anybody know of a church open to “heretics” like me? After so many years of journeying through different practices and religious explorations, I’m feeling ready to plant some roots in a specific community/tradition in order to find some more synergy and play in making this world

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Michael Gungor

5 years

Little PSA for Twitter evangelical friends: using Scripture as an argument with someone who doesn’t have the same view of Scripture as you is basically just a version of an elementary school, “but my mom says...”

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Rachel Held Evans was a beautiful human being. Her strength, courage, wisdom, and love inspired so many of us. I am so grateful and honored to have known her. We will miss you Rachel.

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5 years

Here we are all on social media. Yelling at each other. Subtweeting, insulting, and rolling our eyes at each other. And I wonder if under it all, we just want to connect. To be seen. To be loved. Well, you are. ❤️🙂

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Every human being is sacred. Every human being is sacred, Every human being is sacred. Every human being is sacred. Every human being is sacred. Every human being is sacred. Every human being is sacred. Every human being is sacred. Every human being is sacred.

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5 years

Jesus: “They will know you are my disciples by your love for one another.” Most of Christendom: “We will know you are his disciple if you come to our buildings and believe our creeds, doctrines, and old books...”

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I have been complicit in sexist and racist power structures my whole life and am so grateful for those who have helped me see some of that

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Michael Gungor

5 years

I spent the first 30 years of my life learning about God as Father. It seems to me that the next big chapter of life might have a lot to do with experiencing Her as Mother.

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Michael Gungor

5 years

A few weeks ago, @lisagungor and I were at the park with our daughter, Lu. At one point, Lu pushed another kid on the playground. Lisa and I both ran up and apologized to the kid and the mom of the other kid. The mom looked down at Lu and asked “do you want to play with her?”

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Michael Gungor

6 years

You are loved. Your DNA keeps writing you. Your cells keep building you. Your planet keeps holding you. Your brain keeps telling the story of you. You’re made of love.

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Michael Gungor

8 years

I mourn but refuse to fear. Fear is what got us here. I still choose love. I will fight the darkness with everything I have at my disposal.

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Michael Gungor

4 years

It’s a bit depressing to realize that if I tweet “fuck Trump and all his white supremacist minions”, I’ll get at least 10x the likes and shares than if I tweet, “Here is a link to the project that I’ve spent the last 2 years pouring all of my heart and soul into.” #2020 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Michael Gungor

5 years

Rachel was so Christlike in her faithfulness and willingness to put herself (her reputation, livelihood, social safety net...etc) on the line for those who are bullied, overlooked and oppressed by the religious and political powers-that-be.

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Michael Gungor

6 years

You are made of love. Might as well act like it.

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Michael Gungor

7 years

I have finally formulated my complete systemic doctrinal and theological stance on all issues. Luckily, it fits in a tweet-- Love.

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5 years

Twitter culture now: “Friends, the thing I’ve been working on tirelessly for years has finally come out!” - 4 likes, 1 retweet from the publisher “Fuck Trump and anybody who is offended at this tweet.” - 2,000 likes, 900 retweets

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8 years

I mourn tonight with all my brothers and sisters of color. All the Muslim Americans, immigrants or LGBTQ friends who are terrified right now

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Michael Gungor

5 years

Explained to a foreign friend tonight how our medical system works, and felt like I was explaining a sadistic dystopian novel in which corporations extract wealth from the bodies of the poor and then somehow convince them to vote for their guy again.

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Michael Gungor

4 years

I wonder how the anti-vaccine movement is doing right now

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Michael Gungor

7 years

Those overly concerned w symbols of the country (flag, anthem..) are often the least concerned about the actual country (the land & people)

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Michael Gungor

6 years

If you desire anger, it’s easy to find and even easier to hold onto. If you desire peace, you’re going to have to let go of some stuff that you don’t want to let go of.

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Michael Gungor

6 years

One of my most important missions in life is finding compelling ways of telling people "you're good." Not "you'll be good if..." Not good because of the stories of yesterday or tomorrow... Good. Just as you are right here and now.

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7 years

Life is more beautiful than your timeline would have you believe

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6 years

No human being is trash.

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It hurts to love humans

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6 years

Christine Blasey Ford is a hero

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Michael Gungor

7 years

Good rule of thumb: if your 'heritage' involves the enslavement or murder of millions of lives, that heritage should not be memorialized

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Michael Gungor

7 years

Twitter is my jaded roommate and Facebook is my racist aunt.

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Michael Gungor

5 years

I used to think the stories in the Bible were literal and direct and the mystical language like “the kingdom of Heaven is within you” was metaphorical and obscure. I now see it completely oppositely.

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Michael Gungor

6 years

I used to worship God by singing praises to a someone “out there” who I prayed to draw closer. Now I worship by feeling the sun on my skin and feeling the weight and texture of this phone in my hand. I guess the prayer worked.

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Michael Gungor

7 years

I think Shane is one of the few people in our society who warrant a label like ‘Jesus follower’

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Shane Claiborne

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7 years

STATEMENT ON OUR ARREST TODAY AT THE CAPITOL: Extreme times demand extreme love. I can think of no better way to honor the Savior we remember at Christmas - born a refugee in a manger - than by going to jail for Dreamers. Jesus said when we welcome the stranger we welcome him.

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Michael Gungor

6 years

The distinction between someone being lovable or unlovable is in you, not them.

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4 years

The move from seeing the “body of Christ” as a group of people who believe a certain way to experiencing the “body of Christ” as the entire universe is the “truth that will set you free”

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I remember when we were invited to @LibertyU years ago. We sang a song there about God loving everyone and was never invited back.

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Michael Gungor

6 years

I would like to propose that rather than having “nursing mothers” rooms that we build rooms in the back for the assholes who are uncomfortable with nursing mothers.

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7 years

Our show was shut down early tonight because the promoter thought our Q&A was too controversial.

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Michael Gungor

6 years

No government can ever change the sound of an A minor chord. No politician can alter the softness of your lover’s lips or outlaw the weird magic of water. No one can steal your joy. Even locked away... Even unto death... There is still always and only THIS

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Michael Gungor

6 years

Woah. “You’ll never believe what this Christian musician believes about the Bible” 😄 (Inside joke from 2014 when I was blacklisted for talking about evolution) Well done Joel.

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Evolution is undeniable—created by God as a reflective means of displaying nature’s pattern of renewal in pursuance of God’s Word—an ode to the nature of the creative God it reflects—and only ever in part—not the SOURCE! Science and faith aren’t at odds. God created the Big-Bang.

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Ram Dass died today. He was a beautiful soul, and my life was changed by his teachings and his love. ❤️

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If you haven’t used “she” as a pronoun for God, you’re missing out. Even setting aside all positive femininity, just subtracting testicles from your image of the Divine is most often a move in the right direction.

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Heaven is not a place where you are made perfect after you die. Heaven is the realization that you’re already perfect as you are now.

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She saw our faces and smiled. “I work in law, and I’ve seen that’s the kind of thing people do sometimes when they want to connect but don’t know how.”

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Michael Gungor

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I’ve found that Christian media outlets have tended to be about 5-12 years behind on news articles about my beliefs. Always happy to answer questions any journalists or bloggers out there. Also, I have a podcast where I spell everything out pretty clearly on the regular. 🙂

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Dear Republican still using Scripture to defend 45, is the ‘governmental authority’ of Kim Jung Un established by God as well? What about the Nazis? Were they to be submitted to because God appointed their authority?

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Disagreeing with someone isn't devaluing them, but people often try to make you feel that way. Our culture needs to learn how to disagree.

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Meaningless, meaningless, all is meaningless! Also... Every moment is the only moment we have, and therefore is infinitely meaningful.

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Today we celebrate how Christ came as a poor, fragile, refugee baby. Today, I also celebrate how Christ came to me in 2019...

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Michael Gungor

7 years

Dear future intelligence: some of us in 2017 did realize that there was a mentally unstable white supremacist in the White House with the nuclear codes and a Twitter account, but we didn’t know quite what to do about it.

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He’s using the altar call voice

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Good thought for today: Someday Trump’s name will be nowhere to be found on your timeline or newsfeed.

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Peace is not likely to come anytime soon for humanity, but it is readily available at any given moment for any individual heart.

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Jesus was Christ. Buddha was Christ. Muhammad was Christ. Christ is a word for the Universe seeing itself. You are Christ. We are the body of Christ.

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I don’t really request things from God in prayer anymore, but tonight I do pray to the Divine in you and me for peace. “Let it begin with me”

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6 years

We light up the trees so that we can remember they are always luminous. We give presents to remember the real gifts in our lives—each other. We sing carols to join the music that is always and already happening. Merry Christmas!

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Feeling a new respect for the whole 40 days in the desert thing

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5 years

Just wept through “Just Mercy.” Such an important and powerful film. The death penalty is one of those things that future generations will be haunted and horrified by.

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6 years

“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young...” Of course, people ARE going to look down on you for your: Age Gender Race Orientation Ability Looks Weight Heritage Beliefs Style Past So, a paraphrase: don’t listen to those asshats. Prove them wrong.

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6 years

Reminder: Borders are constructs drawn by people. (Usually people of the war-mongering variety) All kids are “our kids.”

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Fox & Friends host: "These aren't our kids. Show them compassion, but it's not like he is doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas"

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Update for the newbies/old school followers: ‘05: my evangelical faith began to crumble ‘10: mystical experience of oneness ‘12 : tried “atheist” on for a min as I searched for meaning ‘16: nondual spiritual awakening So I love Christ. I love you. I hold no beliefs.

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7 years

If your god has an in group that is smaller than the whole cosmos, your god is a small and destructive idol.

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7 years

Thank you Judge Moore for that reading from the Psalms, I’d now like to read a Scripture from the sacred book called ‘Don’t be an asshole or diddle kids’

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If I can’t fathom any mysteries or knowledge, and if I don’t have faith that can move mountains, but I have love, I am everything. 1 Corinthians 13 (reversed)

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7 years

How beautiful is all of this resistance though?

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8 years

If you supply a lynch mob with a rope, you are complicit in the lynching. If you support a racist with a vote, you are complicit in racism.

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Halloween: that holiday where we pretend that we aren’t normally in costume anyway

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7 years

My daughter just observed that AC/DC sounds like ‘a mean, mean Elmo.’ 😂

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7 years

The America that elected Obama is still here. The America that has always resisted the hate deep in our history and veins is still here. ✊🏽

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5 years

Isn’t life fucking gorgeous?

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Man I love Los Angeles

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A couple realizations necessary for freedom: 1. You did the best you could. 2. So did they.

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7 years

Happy World Down Syndrome Day! #luforpresident

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7 years

Remember what it was like to not check your news feed every half hour to see if the world is ending?

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Michael Gungor

6 years

Kavanaugh has made a convincing argument that there are several women who he has not sexually assaulted on several different days. He almost always doesn’t sexually assault women.

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Michael Gungor

3 years

It’s a weird feeling to know that there are a lot of people who sincerely believe there is a big, all-powerful, (yet somehow not very effective?) wizard “up there” who is going to burn me in a lake of fire for all of eternity because I think incorrect thoughts about him.

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3 years

Shame-based Christianity fueled those awful killings last night.

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Michael Gungor

4 years

There is nothing you “should” be feeling about everything happening in the world right now. Try accepting any feeling as it is and watch how it evolves.

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4 years

Soul might be the most beautiful film I’ve ever seen

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Loving does not mean agreeing. Loving does not mean shutting your mouth and bowing.

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Michael Gungor

7 years

We elected a chimpanzee to lead the free world, and watch in shock as he swings from the chandeliers and flings shit at the walls. This is on us as a society. #homosapiens2020

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6 years

My eyes are bloodshot from crying so much in “Won’t you be my neighbor”. GO SEE IT! He was such a beautiful soul

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4 years

I don’t know how many tens of thousands of people marched in my neighborhood in LA this afternoon, but it was absolutely beautiful and breathtaking to see the diverse, massive and peaceful crowd filled with so much love and passion for justice

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Michael Gungor

6 years

I am at a loss for words in what to say about my country snatching babies away from parents and locking them up. All I have is tears. To have to say “hey, we shouldn’t lock children in cages” is so disheartening, but that’s apparently where we are now.

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Michael Gungor

4 years

A few years ago I stopped being surprised by what Christianity (especially evangelicalism) was capable of. The scandals, hate, fear, violence... There’s been two thousand years of this shit now. It’s not new. Time to reform it from the roots up or let it die!

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Michael Gungor

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In an attempt to gain back some of our conservative Christian fans, I have written a song called "I am a friend of a friend of God" (in 6/4)

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Michael Gungor

5 years

Today a friend helped me see into the shadows of a major blind spot in how I tend to relate to and communicate with others that I have been trying to understand for years. What a gift it is to have friends who will tell you the truth as they see it!

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Michael Gungor

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When you look at a cloud, do you think “this one should be bigger than it is..” Or “that one really should have less wisp at its edges..”? That would be absurd. Yet how often do we think that something about ourselves ought to be other than it is in this moment?

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ALABAMA!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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To our U.K. friends, I am appalled by our unstable president and his response to your suffering. I am so sorry.

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Michael Gungor

6 years

In my experience, religion is quite often a way for the ego to prop itself up and feel superior to others. In obvious forms like “Thank God I’m not a sinner like them.” And the slightly more subtle: “Thank God I’m not like the the guy thanking God for not being a sinner.”

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As pain As bliss As heartbreak and betrayal and loss As ignorance As music As my ego As a ridiculous president As foolishness As friends As people who are no longer friends As doubt As psilocybin As Ram Dass As my heart. As full moons, climate change and smog As this moment

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This morning I held my girls in my arms and tried to imagine how desperate I would have to be to leave everything and everyone I know to illegally cross a border seeking a new life. And then I imagined law enforcement separating me from my girls and putting them in cages. 🇺🇸

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40 today. Feels good. I feel like a fucking man.

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“Who am I hurting with my belief system?” is a very loving and responsible thing to ask oneself. Especially if your initial reaction is “nobody!”

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I mourn for all those who gave their lives for this country to be a place of liberty and justice for all. The movement backwards.

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America is racist. Sexist. Ableist. God bless America. Bless it with prophets. With protest. With sight. With change.

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Regardless of where the border of your “us” is drawn (American, Christian, progressive, conservative, enlightened...etc), God is always on the other side of your fence

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Is it every day? Does this president do something insane every single day?

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Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.

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So many hurting hearts today. See if you can find the love at the center of your pain. The love of your own body and mind. The love of shalom. The love that hurts so much for how things are.

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GROWNUPS DO NOT TWEET IN ALL CAPS

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To our surprise, Lu nodded her head yes. Lu said sorry and the two kids began to play together. Lisa and I looked at each other, dumbfounded by whatever black magic this Lu whisperer was operating with.

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