Believing in the Goodness of God – Oct. 5, 2022
“To act as though one believes in the goodness of God is to relinquish one’s need for the security of rightness. It is to trust the power of God’s transforming love for ourselves and others, even through our mistaken attempts at love. It is to seek the good from the deepest place of love and […]
Growing in Interior Freedom – Oct. 3, 2022
“The challenge and grace for each of us is a growing interior freedom—freedom from all that locks us in or that stands in the way of love; freedom for all that beckons to compassionate care; freedom to stand before God with one another in neediness and to receive all as gift. This poverty also includes […]
A Way Through
If life is one big classroom, the subject for today is “resourcefulness.” It’s a story of mismanagement, misbehavior, and misdirection. A story of making a way out of no way. A story of grace.* Scrambling, scrounging, and soon-to-be-broke, the crooked manager comes up with the perfect plan. In a bold act of slight-of-hand, he gets caught. The […]
Gifted with These Bodies – Aug. 22, 2022
“We have not been burdened with this world and this flesh in order that we might weasel our way out. Rather, we have been gifted with this world and these bodies because this is where God dwells. All flesh is holy, and the ground of all human endeavors is sacred. It is in these bodies […]
