Locusts and Honey

Locusts and Honey

Going Deeper

vol.8: Ephesians 5:1-6

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Lori Harris
Jul 30, 2025
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We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.

St. Clare of Assisi

Nothing has marked my life greater than my wholehearted pursuit of God, and nothing has wounded me more deeply. Because God, in His extravagant love, will refuse anything within us that would hinder us from our full engulfing in His astronomical want of us. Love, by nature, refuses to be separated in any form from its object. God wants our all.

Strahan Coleman, Thirsting: Quenching Our Soul’s Deepest Desire

Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

Ephesians 5:1-2

Walk to Emmaus by Ivanka Demchuck, Ukrainian iconographer

To Whom Am I Attached?

an invitation to attach to God and others

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

Ephesians 5:2

God created us with a need to form close emotional bonds with those who car…

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