{"id":1559,"date":"2007-09-16T03:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edunik.com\/home\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2013-05-12T17:28:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T10:28:34","slug":"quote-heaven-is-not-my-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/edunik.com\/home\/?p=1559","title":{"rendered":"[quote] Heaven is Not My Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/edunik.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/41-HeavenIsNotMyHome.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"4336\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/edunik.com\/home\/?attachment_id=4336\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/edunik.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/41-HeavenIsNotMyHome.jpg?fit=244%2C379\" data-orig-size=\"244,379\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Edward Sanusi&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1368311956&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"41-HeavenIsNotMyHome\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/edunik.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/41-HeavenIsNotMyHome.jpg?fit=193%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/edunik.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/41-HeavenIsNotMyHome.jpg?fit=244%2C379\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4336\" alt=\"41-HeavenIsNotMyHome\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/edunik.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/41-HeavenIsNotMyHome.jpg?resize=244%2C379\" width=\"244\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/edunik.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/41-HeavenIsNotMyHome.jpg?w=244 244w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/edunik.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/41-HeavenIsNotMyHome.jpg?resize=193%2C300 193w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; color: olive; font-family: 'Frutiger Linotype';\"><em>just came back from annual staff retreat and got this beautiful message:<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sin is not the story, it is the blight on the story.<br \/>\nSin distorts everything, perverts everything, corrupts everything.<br \/>\nIt is not sin that makes us bear children, bu it is sin that makes childbearing painful.<br \/>\nIt is not sin that attracts men and women, but it is sin that fills our relationships with control and suspicion.<br \/>\nIt is not sin that makes music, but it is sin that fills our music with vanity and lust.<br \/>\nIt is not sin that makes us construct cities and towers, but it is sin that makes those towers symbols of pride and power.<br \/>\nIt is not sin that calls human beings to live and love, to make music and art, to work and create, to plant and harvest, to play and dance.<br \/>\nBut it is sin that undercuts and perverts them all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sin does not create things. It has no originality, no creativity, no being in itself.<br \/>\nSin lives off that which is good.\u00a0 It is a parasite, feeding greedily on the goodness of what God has made.<br \/>\nNo relation is of itself sinful, but sin corrupts every relation.<br \/>\nNo area of life is in itself out of the will of God, but we defy God&#8217;s will in every area of life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(from Paul Marshall in his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/084991471X\/cm_aya_asin.title\/104-7862700-6923908?v=glance&amp;s=books\">Heaven is Not My Home<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>just came back from annual staff retreat and got this beautiful message: Sin is not the story, it is the blight on the story. Sin distorts everything, perverts everything, corrupts everything. It is not sin that makes us bear children, bu it is sin that makes childbearing painful. 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