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“It turns out redeeming conflict is not about fixing conflict, but managing it in such a way that we rob it of the power to divide and fragment while heightening its power to educate and illumine. Redeeming conflict is about becoming more happy, healthy, truthful, and free in our relationships even while it’s not all figured out.”
– Redeeming Conflict
“The Kingdom of God is in our midst. It comes like a mustard seed, almost invisible to the human eye. It comes like a baby asleep in a manger. It comes like the dawn on the first day of the week. It comes like a child with a question in mind. It comes like a word spoken humbly—a word barely audible over the bells and whistles of contemporary culture. But a word that will change the world.”

– Mustard Seed Preaching
“Ministry is a one-directional activity: we are not in it for ourselves but for the other. We cannot expect those we serve to meet our needs. Yet, in the mysterious graciousness of God, we often find that our work with others does feed us at a very deep level.”
– Redeeming Administration
“As we go through another bruising electoral cycle and it is easy for us to critique our leaders as self-serving and ineffectual. It is much harder to participate in the ‘golden thread’ of God’s leadership and share in the work of shepherding—seeking out the lost, uniting the scattered, binding up wounds. Yet, that is what the Gospel asks of us today: to be the kinds of leaders we want to see.”
– Living Gospel 2016
“For much of our lives, we speak of the Church in third person. ‘The Church teaches…’ ‘The Church should be…’ And then there comes a moment when we realize that we actually are the Church, and if the Church should be doing anything, it would be us doing it.”
– Supervising a Ministry Student
“And it is a mystery to us. It is a mystery how that which we love so much might end up crushing us. And how that which crushes us gives us life. It is hard to know when God’s desire that we have abundant life means we must go. And when God’s desire that all have abundant life means we must stay.”
– Preaching to the Choir

Ann Garrido is:

a Catholic writer, educator, administrator, and communications consultant,

who has a passion for bringing the best research and practice around healthy communication and conflict management from the business world into the church world.

Let them remember there is meaning beyond absurdity. Let them be sure that every little deed counts and that we can—every one—do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments. And, above all, remember that the meaning of life is to build a life as if it were a work of art.

– Abraham Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity

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