Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once said, “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

In my reading of the Gospels, Jesus was always lifting His hearers to a higher level of seeing.  Sometimes they understood, sometimes they didn’t quite get it. But still, He persisted.

Find someone to lift with your words this weekend!

 

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