How to Love
My heart sinks when I read the “new commandment” that Jesus gave to his followers: to love one another as he had loved them, because I know how far I am from that standard.* Pictures from all four gospels flood my mind: Jesus welcoming outcasts and misfits, “unclean” women and noisy children, leaders like Nicodemus and foreigners […]
Who Are We? – May 9, 2022
“When we look at Jesus, we see human nature as it is intended to be. Fully human, fully divine, Jesus shows us what human nature is, what the Divine nature is. Our goal is to go down, down, and down into our own inner beauty and love, to rest in our own depths. We commit, […]
Divine Encounter
My memory takes me to a prayer service I attended at Christ House, a medical care and whole being recovery facility for homeless men in Washington, DC. I sat shoulder to shoulder with patients and staff and others gathered to acknowledge our belonging in the hands of a loving God and offer our longing for […]
Where God Shows Up – May 5, 2022
“We wait beside tombs because this is where God shows up: where love leads us back to life without reason and often without hope. God appears in the places where there is nothing left but devastation, where there are only dead ends and solid walls, when no one else is coming. And it is here, […]
