Learning to Love – Aug. 12, 2019
This week, all quotations come from the collection of Gordon Cosby’s sermons titled By Grace Transformed (New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1999). “Some of us have been greatly loved through the years, and we still do not know how to love in this way… There are some people who have had no security at all—some […]
Already With You – Aug. 9, 2019
I am there in the basket of fruit presented to the widow… I am the musk rose opening unattended, the fern on the boggy summit… I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name… –Jane Kenyon, from “Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks”
Released to See – Aug. 8, 2019
“There is no such thing as defective love, or deficient love, or partial love. Love like sensitivity either is in all its fullness or it simply is not. You either have it whole or you have it not. So it is only when attachments disappear that one enters the boundless realm of spiritual freedom called […]
Becoming Clear – Aug. 7, 2019
“Take time to gaze in wonder at Nature, the flight of a bird, a flower in bloom, the dry leaf crumbling to dust, the flow of a river, the rising of the moon, a silhouette of a mountain against the sky. And as you do this the hard, protective shell around your heart will soften […]