June 28, 2018
“There is a really deep well inside me. And in it dwells God. Sometimes I am there too. But more often stones and grit block the well, and God is buried beneath.” -Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life Etty lived lived in the Netherlands in the 1940’s, down the street from Anne Frank, and died at the […]
June 27, 2018
“Let this be the aim of meditation: to turn one’s innermost being into a vast empty plain, with none of the treacherous undergrowth to impede the view. So that something of ‘God’ can enter you, and something of ‘Love’ too. Not eh kind of love-de-luxe that you revel in deliciously for half an hour, taking […]
June 26, 2018
“Life is hard, at times as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and difficult moments of drought and its moments of flood…if one will hold on, he will discover that God walks with him….God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and […]
June 25, 2018
I Know How the Fly Felt by Kayla McClurg Trapped in the window Between glass and screen, She hums and crawls All of two inches Before hitting a deadend. Stuck. Wedged tight Between helpless and hopeless. I open the window, Setting the captive free. Alleluia! Sing loud and long of the Sweet dancing joy of […]