Body and Spirit
When I was younger, I noticed how people a lot older than me talked a lot about their health, mainly their aches and pains and the next doctor’s visit or medical procedure. Now at a more advanced age, I am doing the same thing! Mercy. But it sure has me reflecting on the body’s amazing […]
Into the Heart of Every Christian – Aug. 18, 2022
“As I understand it, into the heart of every Christian, Christ comes, and Christ goes. When, by his Grace, the landscape of the heart becomes vast and deep and limitless, then Christ makes His abode in that graceful heart, and His will prevails. The experience is recognized as Peace. In the absence of this experience […]
The Path – Aug. 17, 2022
“Jesus’ path was exactly that, a radically unmanageable simplicity—nothing held back, nothing held onto. It was almost too much for his followers to bear. Even within the gospels themselves, we see a tendency to rope him back in again, to turn his teachings into a manageable complexity. Take his radically simple saying: “Those who would […]
Two Great Requests – Aug. 15, 2022
“Jesus never asked anyone to form a church, ordain priests, develop elaborate rituals and institutional cultures, and splinter into denominations. His two great requests were that we “love one another as I have loved you” and that we share bread and wine together as an open channel of that interabiding love.” ―Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom […]