First Time – Jan. 16, 2019
“When William received some bad news, he took off and got loaded. Typically when someone relapses it may take weeks or months for them to find their way back to recovery and stability. William was sitting on the front step the very next day. I asked him what accounted for his being able to return […]
Become Engaged – Jan. 15, 2019
“The real problem with the structures of the church is that they do not often allow us to become engaged in the anguish of people whose need, and accents, and ways are different from our own. They do not allow us to feel. It was not enough for Moses to see the misery of a […]
I Made You – Jan. 14, 2019
The quotes this week come from Killian Noe’s book, Descent into Love: How Recovery Cafe Came To Be. It was written in 2015, ten years after she, and her community in Seattle, started a non-profit intended to provide a place of radical hospitality and belonging for those on the margins, especially those who have been […]
God’s Dream – Jan. 11, 2019
“O God, who out of nothing brought everything that is, out of what I am bring more of what I dream but haven’t dared; direct my power and passion to creating life where there is death, to putting flesh of action on bare-boned intentions, to lighting fires against the midnight of indifference, to throwing bridges […]