“Every journey starts with a single step and every project (learning skills included) goes faster if you start…(Read More)
“Here we are, God’s people. Now what? We are the inheritors of the upside down understanding that is Christ’s message to the world. We have seen something that has changed the human heart forever…(Read More)
There is something profoundly hopeful, faith-filled about disappointment, which refuses to be reconciled to sin or the world’s messiness, but expects and demands something closer to the dream in which God designed our creation…(Read More)
“Rest feels so countercultural when everything else seems to tell us to get more and do more and be more. Our schedules fill up in the blink of an eye and vacations get pushed off to someday…(Read More)
“These are the bonds of a parent to a child, between a bride and a bridegroom, of lifetime friends. These are the bonds which bind us as the Body today. And they all hang on Jesus’ death so that he can rise in eternal life, ascend to his Father and complete his task in creating…(Read More)
“Of course, there’s always the family, but then there are events with friends, coworkers, people from church, or the people we feel we owe an invitation to because they have been gracious enough to invite us. Each category is its own brand of intimacy or congeniality. So who we invite seems to be a…(Read More)
“I concluded that God didn’t send these tests, being human did. No one gets out of this life without having to pass or fail lessons that come upon us as we grow, learn, age, and experience what life has to offer…(Read More)
Not Yet
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“Sometimes, in our not knowing, over time we come to learn that whatever transpired or evolved ended up better than we imagined or would have scripted…and the truth is, we wouldn’t have been able to handle it. We would very likely have gone off in another direction and missed the gift…(Read More)
“The new commandment is both very simple and very complex. To give my life for love is not for me one giant act, for instance taking a bullet for someone. There could be an occasion when that is the expression of my love, but that’s not what I aim for in following Christ…(Read More)
“You planted your holy song, O Lord, in laughing brook and rambling river fed by rain before time…(Read More)
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