Written on the Student Body

Submitted by Trista Newton:

God, I guess…Through several stories in the first chapter, Father Greg Boyle really emphasizes the large sense of God, and how his love for us is just as large, with all of our imperfections and mistakes, right where we are. I chose the video by Jefferson Bethke to support Father Boyle’s emphasis on that. God created us, just as we are, and he delights in our being. Father Boyle states in the last part of the first chapter, “Behold the One who can’t take His eyes off of you.” This video reiterates this in one of poem lines – “The church isn’t a museum for good people, it’s a hospital for the broken.”

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“Compassion is always, at its most authentic, about a shift from the cramped world of self-preoccupation into a more expansive place of fellowship, of true kinship.”

~Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart

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Shirin Sahba - Feeding fish

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The tattooist embroiled in a row with a teenage girl who claims he tattooed 56 stars on her face when she only asked for three has said he will help pay for them to be removed
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Tertianship

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