Living Light and Free
The entirety of God’s realm is ours if only we give away all we own.* Fear attaches to whatever we cannot release, becoming a ruinous mold in the dark isolation of our grasping and clutching. Fear infiltrates our life, alters our breathing and shows up masked as various anxieties and dis-eases. Fear erodes the realm […]
Faith – July 10, 2019
“To have faith does not primarily mean believing something, but rather believing in someone. Faith is trust. It takes courage to trust. The opposite of faith is not disbelief, but distrust, fear. Fear makes us cling to anything within reach. Fear clings even to beliefs… Faith is the courage to respond gratefully to every given […]
How Then Shall We Live?
Some years back, a sniper drove around the greater D.C. area killing people at random for 23 days before being found and arrested. My children were teens then, and sending my family out into the world, and then choosing to move in the world the same ways I always had, made me newly aware that […]
Stepping Out of Fear – Jan. 1, 2019
“The long helplessness of a child generated a sphere of softening, experimentation, and creativity in self-understanding and shared life. This is the biological groundwork for the axial move—stepping out of fear and into care beyond one’s self. The religions apprehended this long ago and wove it into language; compassion in both Hebrew and Arabic derives […]
