A Wonderful Home – Nov. 8, 2019
“The interior life is a wonderful home for us because the Lord is not only the doorkeeper but also the door. His divinity makes him the doorkeeper, and his humanity makes him the door. Follow Christ’s teaching, the common, humble way, the door of devotion.” —The Cloud of Unknowing, p. 205
Living Prayer – Oct. 15, 2019
“Authentic prayer is opening to God’s gracious presence with all that we are, what Scripture summarizes as our whole heart, soul, and mind (Matt 22:37). Therefore, prayer is more a way of being than an isolated act of doing… Prayer is aimed at our deepest problem: our tendency to forget our liberating connectedness with God… […]
One Thing Needed
Jesus, on his way to Jerusalem with his disciples, is welcomed by Martha into her home. Mary, Martha’s sister, sits at his feet, as a disciple of her day would, listening to what he has to say. Martha is distracted with all the tasks of hospitality at hand. She comes to Jesus and asks, “Lord, […]
The Road Ahead
Fresh from lonely desert life, dust still under his fingernails, Mary and Joseph’s son came home to teach. Home from the wilderness to the place and people who raised him. His work would begin here. The place looks and feels different… smaller somehow. From the seat in his childhood sabbath meeting house, a place where […]
