God Comes as Our Life – Dec. 20, 2022
“The genius of the biblical revelation is that we will come to God through “the actual,” the here and now, or quite simply what is. As Paula D’Arcy says, “God comes to us disguised as our life.”” -Richard Rohr, “Negative Capability”, Center for Action and Contemplation – Daily Meditations, Jan. 11, 2016
Unshakeable Confidence – Oct. 10, 2022
“We must learn to act differently from those who always hesitate… We must be clear about what we want, we must ask whether we’re up to it, and then we must do it with unshakeable confidence… All we can do is to live in the assurance and faith.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, p. […]
Get Over Yourself – Dec. 14, 2021
“Sometimes I’m so thick that God has no choice but to be almost embarrassingly obtuse. Like sending me a hurting kid with glistening lines cut in her arm – a kid with protective pink bangs, a kid who doesn’t fit, a kid who in her own way said to me, Oh hey, God told me to […]
God Working Through Us – July 2, 2020
“Without higher-quality material to work with, God resorts to working through us for others and upon us through others. Those are some weirdly restorative, disconcerting shenanigans to be caught up in: God forcing God’s people to see themselves as God sees them, to do stuff they know they are incapable of doing, so that God […]
