Quote from Thaddeus Williams on the Heroism of Everyday Obedience

The greatest adventure we can aspire to is composed of a million seemingly small cross-shaped acts. The adventure Jesus calls us to does not include thrilling escapes from the realities of ordinary life. Christ enters our lives and baptizes the mundane with meaning. We embark on this adventure by sacrificing for others over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways. By preaching the gospel with our words and embodying it in our daily actions, we toss the ring into Mount Doom, fire the proton torpedo into the Death Star exhaust port, and destroy the Horcruxes. 

Daily life takes on eternal significance. Because we are eternal beings, we can join the real adventure that lasts forever. In Christ, ordinary work mingles with the extraordinary. In all the menial tasks, we find ourselves thrust into an epic story with eternal implications.  

(From Don't Follow Your Heart, which I liked, but didn't love. It was a bit too "cluttered" with its chapter headings, hashtags, personal testimonies, "to do" lists, and prayers. You Are Not Your Own by Alan Noble has a similar message but it is more straightforward, and was my favorite book in 2022.)

Still, DFYH had many important ideas, and wonderful quotes. 

Blessings,