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ANNA HERITAGE

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We don’t function like machines. We need an environment where we sense the freedom to be who we are, within boundaries framed by values and a common goal. We need to feel we are safe and supported as whole people who have significant things to contribute, despite our differences. We need to be creative. And we need to communicate with all kinds of people who have information we do not, because none of us knows everything. We need each other. And we need an environment around us that acknowledges and supports these facts.

The Ascent of a Leader by Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol, Ken McElrath

In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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Where I’d rather be, instead of waking up to mow lawn and get ready for a busy month of painting in August. I’m lacking in mornings woke up in a tent on the road hopefully this fall I can make up for it with some more trips!

#motocamping #blackbus