Do Not Lose Heart – Oct. 15, 2022
October is the traditional time in the Church of the Saviour for annual membership recommitment. It is an unusual church practice, perhaps unique, joining and re-joining the same faith community year after year. Or not. When I first made this commitment, a long-time member told me it gets harder every year, just the opposite of what I […]
Deliver Me from Faint-heartedness – Oct. 12, 2022
O Holy Spirit, Give me faith that will protect me from despair, from passions, and from vice; Give me such love for God and men as will blot out all hatred and bitterness; Give me hope that will deliver me from fear and faint-heartedness. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, p. 140
Living Faith
I have been pondering what it means to have faith. To cultivate a life where I listen with the ear of the heart and act with the conviction that my life is meant to bear witness to Love. But not just me and my life, you and yours too, each of us born to be a […]
Mystery of Hope – Sept. 28, 2022
“Vaclav Havel, former president of Czechoslovakia, put it this way: “Hope is an orientation of the heart… The more unpropitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper that hope is… [Without hope] it is impossible to live in dignity and meaning much less find the will for the ‘hopeless enterprise’ which stands at […]