Being Bread
After a late dinner, we were walking back to our hotel when the breeze brought a whiff of freshly baked bread. I turned and stared through the darkness at an arched opening backlit by flames. A glistening shirtless man was lifting loaves out of the brick oven with a long paddle, balancing, turning, then sliding […]
Part of Everything – May 27, 2021
“Our task is to drop our hostility and our estrangement from the creation and to begin to rest in it. To connect with it. To give it our friendship. Our work is to nurture creation, and to be nurtured by it. To meet God through it.” –Gordon Cosby, Seized by the Power of a Great […]
Knowing Ourselves – Oct. 19, 2020
“A strong community helps people develop a sense of true self, for only in community can the self exercise and fulfill its nature: giving and taking, listening and speaking, being and doing. But when community unravels and we lose touch with one another, the self atrophies and we lose touch with ourselves as well.” –Parker […]
It Is Well With My Soul – Apr. 13, 2020
In these days of self-quarantine at home, a group of Nashville Studio Singers each using their cell phones sang the hymn, “It Is Well With My Soul,” and emailed it to a producer who put together this inspiring video/recording. It can remind us of the gift and ground of our being in God and that […]
