God’s Peace Agenda – Jan. 9, 2023
“The Incarnation positions Jesus among the most vulnerable people, the bereft and threatened of society. The first advent shows God wrestling with the struggles common to many the world over. And from this disadvantaged stance, Jesus lives out God’s peace agenda as a counter-testimony to Caesar’s peace.” –Richard Rohr, “Incarnation at the Edge”, Daily Meditations, […]
Blessing of the Well – Oct. 24, 2022
If you standat the edgeof this blessingand call downinto it,you will hearyour wordsreturn to you. If you lean in close,you will hearthis blessinggive the storyof your lifeback to you. Quiet your voice.Quiet your judgment.Quiet the wayyou always tellyour storyto yourself.…. –Jan Richardson, from “Blessing of the Well” in Circle of Grace, p. 109
Grace and Impatience – Oct. 19, 2022
In our secret yearningswe wait for your coming,and in our grinding despairwe doubt that you will.And in this privileged placewe are surrounded by witnesses who yearn more than do weand by those who despair more deeply than do we.Look upon your church and its pastorsin this season of hopewhich runs so quickly to fatigueand in […]
Soften My Edges – Jan. 6, 2022
O Lord, Giver of This Journey: Soften my edges as your grace forms me. Uncoil me by your incomprehensible love and grace. How else shall I reply to such blessings than to kneel with adoration as you gift me with the inheritance of your healing Word? Amen. -Peter Traben Haas, Centering Prayers, p. 12
