April 5
“If our own potential is blocked and has found no creative channels in which to flow, then what we feel in the presence of another is envy. We may not recognize it as envy—only a perplexing pain or deadness. We will have no praise of another—no joy in another. Instead, we will turn away and […]
April 4
Failure is part of the story of our mission groups, and will be part of the story of any church that is willing to risk itself. The question is, what do we do with our failures? Do we say it isn’t so and try to hold the dead up? EOC, Journey – Elizabeth O’Connor, Journey […]
April 3
Threat in itself is no enemy that we should rid ourselves of it. In fact, the danger is that we bar the doors lest it come in, when that feeling of threat inside might be a sign of the Presence of God letting us know, if we will listen, that we have put our security […]
April 2
Part of what it means to be a person in community is to be a person secure enough in love to venture out. Perhaps “training for the Kingdom” is a recovery of the trust that love is there, and in the midst of failing, of trial, and loss, and whatever life brings, that same energizing […]