Loving the People – May 10, 2023
“A moving feeling within me… that I was sitting there demanding a God-given right, and my soul became satisfied that I was right in what I was doing. At the same time there was something deep down within me, moving me… that I could no longer be satisfied or go along with an evil system that […]
Feeling the Sacred Within – Feb. 8, 2023
“Ultimately we must each create a personal image of the sacred that leads us toward the ultimate mystery… We open a space for the feeling of the sacred… We as Westerners should not underestimate the difficulty we face when we try to cultivate inner space. Western culture has raised us to feel that any private, personal experience […]
This Kind Moment – Dec. 22, 2022
The way the light falls through the windows. The sounds our silence makes when we come together like this. The sense we have of each other’s presence. The feeling in the air that one way or another we are all of us here to give each other our love, and to give God our […]
Take the Trouble – Oct. 11, 2022
“How many people today allow themselves any strong personal feeling and real yearning, or take the trouble to spend their strength freely in working out and carrying out that yearning, and letting it bear fruit?” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, p. 271
