The Journey – Jan. 2, 2023
“Sometimes withthe bones of the blacksticks left when the firehas gone out someone has writtensomething newin the ashesof your life You are not leaving…you are arriving“ –David Whyte, excerpt from “The Journey”, The House of Belonging, p. 38 Full poem: https://wordsfortheyear.com/2015/08/13/the-journey-by-david-whyte/
What Did I Expect?
When I agreed to follow Jesus, I had no idea what I was getting into. I was forty years old, and had spent most of my life alternately yearning for and avoiding a deeper relationship with God. When I was in my early teens, I went to a Jewish summer camp in the San Bernardino […]
Set Me Ablaze – Aug. 30, 2022
Touching the match to the kindling,it’s tempting to thinkI’m doing this simplyfor the heat and light,that it’s not an ancient ritualborne in my blood,that it’s not a desperate prayer:God set me ablaze. –Jan Richardson, In Wisdom’s Path, p. 5
The Burning
I’ve come to start a fire… —Luke 12:49-56, The Message In the days when a hearth fire kept the family alive, our ancestors learned to bank the fire before they went to sleep, pushing the logs and coals together to preserve the slow burning. It was important to keep it smoldering through the night, ready to […]
