Examine My Heart – May 16, 2023
“Test me, O Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind; for your love is ever before me, and I will walk continually in your truth.” -Psalm 26:3-4
Spirit of Truth
This Spring, glorious as it is, I often seem to be stuck in sad emotions and the inability to move forward in making decisions about the future. I awaken each day with a practice of remembering my identity as a beloved child of God, intending to stay conscious of the “we-ness” of approaching each moment. Yet I […]
A Member of the Flock
I don’t like being called a sheep. As a city person, I don’t really know much about sheep, except that they are stupid, dirty, smelly creatures that stand around all day eating grass, willing to follow the crowd even if they are about to run off the cliff. I could be wrong, of course, but […]
If We Listen – Apr. 25, 2023
All experience strips us of much except our sheer strength of mind, of spirit.All experience reveals that upon these we must not finally depend.Brooding over us and about us, even in the shadows of the paradox, there is something more—There is a strength beyond our strength, giving strength to our strength.Whether we bow our knee […]