The Generosity of God – Jan. 13, 2020
“Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God’s grace and God’s love for us… Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.” ―Desmond Tutu, God Has a […]
We All Lose Hope – Jan. 12, 2020
“Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we all lose hope that the suffering in our lives and in the world will ever end. I want to share with you my faith and my understanding that this suffering can be transformed […]
We Are All Flawed – Jan. 11, 2020
“We are all flawed and all human. We all have made mistakes and harmed others. We will again. We find it easier to practice forgiveness when we can recognize that the roles could have been reversed. Each of us could have been the perpetrator rather than the victim. Each of us has the capacity to […]
Fragments – Jan. 8, 2020
And so we take the ragged fragmentsthe patches of darknessthat give shape to the light;the scraps of desiresunslaked or realized;the memories of spaces of blessing,of pain.….And so we lay them at the threshold, God:bid you hold them, bless them, use them;ask you tend them, mend them,transform themto keep us warm,make us whole,and send us forth. […]