A Deep Longing – June 8, 2021
“American culture has almost entirely fragmented the extended family. As a result, we experience a deep longing for the things the extended family used to provide… The church as a family can be a way of incarnating an answer to these longings.” -Hal Miller, from “Brothers, Sisters” in Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants […]
Fragments – Jan. 8, 2020
And so we take the ragged fragmentsthe patches of darknessthat give shape to the light;the scraps of desiresunslaked or realized;the memories of spaces of blessing,of pain.….And so we lay them at the threshold, God:bid you hold them, bless them, use them;ask you tend them, mend them,transform themto keep us warm,make us whole,and send us forth. […]
