It Felt Love – June 17, 2019
Shams-ud-din Muhammed Hafiz was a 14th century Persian Sufi master, prophet, mystic, and enlightened teacher who wrote love songs of God, stretching us to the edges of our understanding and beyond, bringing the treasures born of falling in love with the Divine. The keepers of orthodoxy hated him, causing him and his followers to often […]
Nevertheless
I’m imagining myself sitting with a movie producer, presenting my treatment of today’s Gospel passage* for adaptation into a short film. It’s a story, I’d tell him, about a massive crowd of people who have lost their way, and one apparently insignificant woman on whom our gaze will rest at the movie’s end. It’s an […]
June 26, 2018
“Life is hard, at times as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and difficult moments of drought and its moments of flood…if one will hold on, he will discover that God walks with him….God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and […]
The Teacher and the Tempest
Mark 4:35-41 Jesus had been teaching by the sea, telling stories about lights hidden under baskets, scattering seeds, and the way in which they best grow. After the lessons, he told his students, “let’s cross over to the farthest shore.” Enough stories for now. The hearers are sated from his rich and mysterious words, yet […]
