Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
-- Pooh's Little Instruction Book

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
-- Pooh's Little Instruction Book

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
-- Pooh's Little Instruction Book

i love pooh bear for several reasons. i enjoy it as a kid, since they are heart warming tales of a dumb bear, dumb friends, and a whole lot of loving community between piglet, pooh, and christopher robin. I read the stories now and i enjoy them for the same reasons and a few added reasons. There is so much wisdom put into dumb words. I see the usefulness for big words, complicated theology, and long essays on a simple topic. God is an unfathomable being, but he has a habit of reaching down to us when we have little understanding and the heart of the gospel is simple, powerful, and radical. The heart of sin is distortion and complication. satan can't create, the only person who can create is God, he is the only source of anything new and unique.

"The simplification of anything is always sensational." - gk chesteron

the start of growth and the end of it begin with the same thing, We are loved and given grace that we can never know the fullest. No amount of theology or doctrine is going to make you grow an incredible amount, rather the a-z of growth is, and always has been, the gospel. Jesus sacrifice, planned by the father, so we may have a father and home we never had, is the gospel. that is how we begin and that is what we are called to when we die.