As we continue in our series focusing on women of faith, Pastor Chris features our friend Shauna Niequist and her book “i guess I haven’t learned that yet”. Through her book, Shauna introduces us to a faith that is humble, quick to listen and invites us into hospitality.
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Scripture & Quotations
Proverbs 4:23
Above all else, watch over your heart; diligently guard it because from a sincere and pure heart come the good and noble things of life.
Ephesians 4:2
Be humble. Be gentle. Be patient. Tolerate one another in an atmosphere thick with love.
“There’s so much I don’t know about this next season, about the world or about my own life or my own next self, but here’s what I know: there will be dancing.
There will be pink dresses. There will be play. And delight and beauty and hope. And I’ll keep showing up in my ridiculous pink dress, despite my longing for invisibility. Because who knows who it is on the sidewalk who desperately needs an infusion of whimsy or enchantment or joy. Sometimes it’s me, and sometimes it’s that sweet old man across from me on the sidewalk, and as long as we all keep showing up, keep dancing, keep seeing each other, I think we’ll all get to wherever we’re going, and I think we’ll all discoverer our wild, brave next selves along the way.”
— Shauna Niequist
“Hospitality is holding space for another person to be seen and heard and loved. It’s giving someone a place to be when they’d otherwise be alone. It’s, as my friend Sibyl says, when someone leaves your home feeling better about themselves, not better about you.”
— Shauna Niequist
“Because people are great. And we need each other and we have so much to learn from one another. And I had sort of forgotten that, because I hadn’t been around very many for so long. Hospitality is the antidote to isolation, and we need it. I need it. Every neighborhood and town and city block needs it. And each one of us can be a part of it.”
— Shauna Niequist