Calling to God – May 21, 2019
“[Prayer] is the movement of the heart of a man toward God; a movement that in a sense is within God–God in the heart sharing its life with God the creator of all Life. The hunger itself is God, calling to God.” -Howard Thurman, Disciplines of the Spirit
Just Waiting – May 16, 2019
“In every heart there is a coward and a procrastinator. In every heart there is a god of flowers, just waiting To come out of its cloud and lift its wings.” -Mary Oliver, from “The Kookaburras”
How Do We Know?
I’ll confess right here: in my youth, I spent a good bit of psychic energy wrestling with myself and others over the question of whether Jesus’ post-Resurrection appearances could have been captured by a video camera. Behind the question was my tacit assumption that if the answer were, “No, a videotape would have shown nothing,” […]
It Felt Love – Feb. 22, 2019
HowDid the roseEver open its heart And give to this worldAll itsBeauty? It felt the encouragement of lightAgainst itsBeing, Otherwise,We all remain Too Frightened. -Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky in The Gift