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
Known By What Is Absent
Suffering is not a sign of being punished by God. At the other end of the spectrum, keeping oneself free of all suffering is not a sign of pleasing God. The Galileans who suffered under the cruelty of Pilate, Jesus says, are no worse sinners than the rest of us. Suffering happens. Rain falls on […]
The Hulled Heart
Today in an early morning dream I was addressed by a voice. It asked, “What are you doing?” and I answered, “I am hulling my heart.” The voice asked “Why?” and I answered, “I have need of a hulled heart.” I awoke, as I have so often this year, knowing that in my sleep I […]
Pruning
This spring, I have done more pruning than ever before. Pulling away what is dead is one thing but cutting down what is alive is quite another thing. The rose bushes cut down to their knees, the cypress trees as far up as I could reach, the blueberry and butterfly bushes down to my knees. […]
