How to Recognize Grace – July 30, 2020
It takes you by surpriseIt comes in odd packagesIt sometimes looks like lossOr mistakesIt acts like rainOr like a seedIt’s both reliable and unpredictableIt’s not what you were aiming atOr what you thought you deservedIt supplies what you needNot necessarily what you wantIt grows you upAnd lets you be a childIt reminds you you’re not […]
A Shared Grain of Hope – July 29, 2020
I have a small grain of hope—one small crystal that gleamsclear colors out of transparency. I need more. I break off a fragment to send you. Please takethis grain of a grain of hopeso that mine won’t shrink. Please share your fragmentso that yours will grow. Only so, by division,will hope increase, like a clump […]
Hidden Things
There is an old Chinese story about a poor farmer whose father died in a faraway land. His neighbors called it bad luck. But the farmer said, “Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?” With the inheritance, the farmer bought a large property with a great mansion. The neighbors called it good luck. The farmer replies, […]
God Working Through Us – July 2, 2020
“Without higher-quality material to work with, God resorts to working through us for others and upon us through others. Those are some weirdly restorative, disconcerting shenanigans to be caught up in: God forcing God’s people to see themselves as God sees them, to do stuff they know they are incapable of doing, so that God […]
