“God invites us, perhaps even challenges us, to become co-creators and co-collaborators in birthing fledgling dreams and in encouraging fragile seeds that have lain dormant within us. When I finally acknowledged, honored and acted upon this truth that I perceived within, I experienced God’s presence as never before! With this acknowledgement I began to recover a greater acceptance of myself and also deeper relationships with God and the rest of God’s world – relationships which are all interconnected.
As I became more aware of the presence of God in my life, I also became more attentive to the deeper promptings and leadings within my own being and began to look more honestly and objectively at my own gifts and resources.” (Introduction, p. i)
“To step out in faith is to experience risk and uncertainty, but it is also to experience God’s loving embrace and continued steadfastness.” (p. iii)
By Ruth Halvorson, founder of ARC Retreat Center and quoted in Action Reflection Celebration: the ARC story
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