Seeking Elsewhere and Otherwise – Oct. 18, 2022
We are strange conundrums of faithfulness and fickleness.We cleave to you in all the ways that we are able.We count on you and intend our lives to be lived for you,and then we find ourselves among your peoplewho are always seeking elsewhere and otherwise. So we give thanks that you are the God who yearns […]
At the Hinge – Oct. 17, 2022
You brood in the night in its fearfulness,You dawn the day in its energy, You move at the edge of night into the margin of day.You take the feeble night and give us strong day, You take our fatigue and bestow courage, You take our drowsy reluctance and fashion full-blooded zeal.What shall we say? You, […]
Freedom Exultant – Oct. 14, 2022
Faint not nor fear, but go out to the storm and the action, trusting in God whose commandment you faithfully follow. Freedom, exultant, will welcome your spirit with joy. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, p. 371
Nothing is Impossible – Oct. 13, 2022
“It is certain that we may always live close to God in the light of God’s presence, and that such living is an entirely new life for us; that nothing is then impossible for us, because all things are possible with God.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, p. 391
