In the Light of God – May 28, 2020
“For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God’s purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.” ―Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on […]
Shafts of Glory – May 27, 2020
“You were not – or so it seemed – telling me that “Nature,” or “the beauties of Nature,” manifest the glory. No such abstraction as “Nature” comes into it. I was learning the far more secret doctrine that pleasures are shafts of the glory as it strikes our sensibility. As it impinges on our will […]
Doing God’s Work – May 26, 2020
“In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do [God’s] work, to bear [God’s] glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, […]
What Glory Is For – May 25, 2020
“I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn’t it what all the great wars and battles are fought for — so that at day’s end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?” ―Ursula K. Le Guin, Voices