The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. — Frederick Buechner Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve… but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord. — Joshua 24:15 During my “dark night of the soul” — caused…
Loving One Another Because We’re Made for Each Other
Made for Each Other ~ N. T. Wright As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. — Proverbs 27:17 We are made for each other. Yet making relationships work, let alone making them flourish, is often remarkably difficult. We all know that justice matters, yet it slips through our fingers. We mostly know that…
In the Morning
In the Morning, Trust God ~ Eugene Peterson O Lord, in the morning Thou dost hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for Thee, and watch. — Psalm 5:3 RSV The work of God begins while we are asleep and without our help. He continues to work through the day in our worship…
Stop, Look, and Listen for God: Love Each Other
To look with the imagination as well as with the eyes. To look with empathy and compassion. To see each other as Rembrandt saw the old woman, as Holden Caulfield and Seymour Glass with X-ray eyes, which, of course, Jesus supremely has. The most precious words from His lips — and to me I think…
The Eyes of My Heart
As I grow older, less inhibited, dottier, I find it increasingly easy to move toward being who I truly am, let the chips fall where they may. I also find it easier to relate to others as they truly are too, which is at its heart, I suspect, rather a good deal like the rest…
I Want to Know Why!
It does not help to try to quantify suffering, I have learned along the way. That the tsunami of 2004 killed far more people than the tsunami of 2011 or that more students died at Virginia Tech than at Sandy Hook Elementary School does not make one event more tragic than the other. Likewise, to…