Gregg Louis Taylor

Author I Pastor | New book Here, Now, with You

[Gregg Louis Taylor @GreggLTaylor]

Favorite Quote Friday: "You can have the other words—chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it," Mary Oliver. Read more https://t.co/y8GOidVZtv #grace

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Planning the REAL Conversation on self #compassion this morning with @dunnmichael at @LePeepHouston @RiceVillageDist. Join the conversation this Thursday, Sept 12 at First Christian Church Houston, 6:30. More info: https://t.co/zyeKLaHeYV

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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America https://t.co/M4R98UBacp. Thanks ⁦@dunnmichael⁩ for recommending ⁦@wcaleb⁩ new book. Can’t wait to read it!! https://t.co/M4R98UBacp

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125 Years! - https://t.co/HknxITEgPk

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An elderly woman wh'd done everything she could to raise a healthy family shared with me what incarceration had done to her family. “My son has been in and out of prison for 20 years, and every time he comes home, he returns with a little less of himself.” https://t.co/dWzpN5RMYL

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Let them moo in peace - https://t.co/uTZiVaYdAv

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Pastoral Care with the Forgotten  - https://t.co/LMyDzR3scO

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When compassion sends us outside our comfort zones, it plops us down in a disorienting position. Friends, if we are willing to press on, to stand in places that makes our knees weak, mouth shut, and ears open, we will be surprised by what we encounter. #compassion

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What’s it like to be a 16-year-old in prison? - https://t.co/r8VEWDw1ZK

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"I was locked up. You came. I was looked upon with disdain, you saw me with dignity. I was treated with cruelty; you saw me with kindness. I was a number, but you said my name..." Read my @ministrymatters article "Meet Jesus in Prison" here https://t.co/wXyxPBBrFG

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“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do," @ANNELAMOTT Ouch! That stings a little! There’s more where that came from in my blog https://t.co/S8OHPFHN45 #fridayquotes #favoritequote #godsimage

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I’m honored to contribute to this important issue of Circuit Rider. @ministrymatters As we seek to provide pastoral care, we must remember those whose traumas we see but ignore, acknowledge but shy away from, and rush to but quickly forget. https://t.co/72radrk2rX

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What’s it like to be a16-year-old serving an adult sentence in a maximum-security prison? You breathe despair. Every promise made to you, broken. Every person you've loved, gone. Resentments and regrets rent space in your head. Still, you hope. Read more https://t.co/G9TZmDfsPw

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The world God loves and invites you to love is not as black-and-white, either-or, who’s-in-and-who’s-out as you once thought. God is moving you into relationships you never dreamed you would have. I write about this and other movements of compassion in my book #herenowwithyou

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You are accepted...by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted–Paul Tillich https://t.co/oihpYqh0wp for full quote #favoritequotefriday #grace

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You're a mess. I'm a mess. We’re a mess, but we’re becoming more and more aware that the Spirit of God works with purpose in that mess. #peoplearemessy #godhaspurpose #beauty #messyspirituality

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“Not only does a bridge merge the distance to connect points A and B; a bridge holds opposite sides together in tension so a connection can be made” - paraphrase from Adam Taylor, Executive Director of @Sojourners #bridge #connection #unity #tension

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I think it's important to see beyond the divisive language of politics and to engage theological imagination, something that seems to be missing in our culture. This prayer for migrant children is a tool to do just that. https://t.co/RwShu16G0g #migrant #children #prayer

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The church at its essence is a unique relational eco-system of grace in which compassion can be cultivated to thrive. #leadership #churchleadership #cultivate #compassion #grace #church #becompassionate

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Who else is excited it's the weekend?! #friyay #weekendvibes