Only Love Today
July 11, 2017
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I love to retreat and I love the holiness that opens up when people gather together.
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Sass and the Gospel
April 9, 2017
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Dad took about three minutes as he insisted on pulling himself up to the rail of his bed. “Louie, you are very wrong, my son. You are the son I wanted! I love you very much.” How much more our heavenly parent says to us, more than we’re prepared to hear, “You, just as you are, are the child that I want.” When you really hear that, you will never be the same again.
Speaking to the Soul: John Donne
March 31, 2017
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Donne’s poetry reminds us that as long as love exists, death cannot win.
Speaking to the Soul: Beauty and the Beast
March 24, 2017
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Love can only exist where there is freedom to choose and it cannot be a false choice where we return to God out of a sense of duty or obligation.
Speaking to the Soul: Sit and Eat
February 27, 2017
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As we prepare to enter the holy season of Lent, growing awareness of our own sinfulness can begin to weigh heavy on our hearts and souls. The poem Love (III) by George Herbert offers a helpful reminder that God meets us where we are- messy and broken- and welcomes us with an invitation.
Speaking to the Soul: Beyond Valentine’s Day
February 15, 2017
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In direct counterpoint to the dominant strains of competition and striving that too often poisons our relationships with others, Jesus as the new Moses leads us into loving people rather than things.
Speaking to the Soul: Sharing Love
February 14, 2017
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Sometimes love comes to us in the smallest, loudest, and hopeful voices of children.
Speaking to the Soul: Fear and welcome
February 6, 2017
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“But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.” (Mark 9:32)
Speaking to the Soul: Linking Arms, Linking Lives
January 12, 2017
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In conversation, in open and nonjudgmental listening, we link our arms, we link our lives, in love. We learn one another’s joys and sorrows. We find out what sort of help we each need and when we most need it.
Speaking to the Soul: Love calls us home
December 20, 2016
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May we all be drawn there, too. Drawn toward the Love that turned and slept in his mother’s arms. Love that offers us everything and demands from us everything in return. Love that stands against principalities and powers
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