Bewilderment
We enter this week before Christmas telling the story, beginning with these simple words: This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about.* I am struck by how ordinary (i.e., messy) is the start of the life of a Messiah. Messy in that it is not what we expect, not all that tidy and neat, and […]
Magnaminity
I remember when my husband and I had just indulged in giant-scoop ice cream cones of our favorite flavor, jamoca almond fudge. Stumbling on the cobblestone pavement, his cone flipped, and the ice cream fell out. A young child behind us gasped and stepped up, holding out her own cone as solace. Who could have imagined this magnanimous […]
Working Through Us – Nov. 15, 2022
“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 […]
Blessed is the One – Oct. 27, 2022
Blessed is the Onewho comes to usby the way of lovepoured out with abandon. Blessed is the Onewho walks toward usby the way of gracethat holds us fast. Blessed is the Onewho calls us to followin the way of blessing,in the path of joy. –Jan Richardson, “Blessed is the One” in Circle of Grace, p. 125
