Breath of Life – July 7, 2020
“Faith gathers in its sweep the life of every person, as indeed all that lives, and informs it with overtones of hope and anticipations of the future. It holds within its grasp the past and the future as a single moment in time. It does not seek to secure itself by the sanction of mind […]
Radical Amazement – July 6, 2020
“Life moves at a deeper level than the objective and the data of our senses. We are most alive when we are brought face to face with the response of the deepest thing in us to the deepest thing in life. Consider the hackneyed illustration of the beautiful sunset! We see the sunset, we recognize […]
Life on Earth – July 3, 2020
“And this is it. This is the life we get here on earth. We get to give away what we receive. We get to believe in each other. We get to forgive and be forgiven. We get to love imperfectly. And we never know what effect it will have for years to come. And all […]
God Working Through Us – July 2, 2020
“Without higher-quality material to work with, God resorts to working through us for others and upon us through others. Those are some weirdly restorative, disconcerting shenanigans to be caught up in: God forcing God’s people to see themselves as God sees them, to do stuff they know they are incapable of doing, so that God […]