How to Recognize Grace – July 30, 2020
It takes you by surpriseIt comes in odd packagesIt sometimes looks like lossOr mistakesIt acts like rainOr like a seedIt’s both reliable and unpredictableIt’s not what you were aiming atOr what you thought you deservedIt supplies what you needNot necessarily what you wantIt grows you upAnd lets you be a childIt reminds you you’re not […]
Letting Go – Mar. 16, 2020
“Dwelling on this thought of letting go, and handing myself over to the Spirit will bring me much closer to the experience of Jesus than the word “discipline” that so many of us have been trained to invoke at the beginning of Lent. It should help us smile at our anxious attempts to bring our […]
A Different Surrender – Mar. 13, 2019
“Perhaps the word “surrender” should be enough for my prayer… Not the surrender of submission to an enemy, but the opposite, the laying down of resistance to the One who loves me infinitely more than I can guess, the One who is more on my side than I am myself. Dwelling on this thought of […]
