At Home – July 2, 2019
“The one journey that ultimately matters is the journey into the place of stillness deep within one’s self. To reach that place is to be at home; to fail to reach it is to be forever restless. In contemplation we catch a vision of not only what is, but what can be. Contrary to what […]
A Journey from Old to New – June 28, 2019
“When Christians remember well, we are able to explore the story of God’s involvement with the world and to draw on that entire story to locate and understand what is going on at any particular time within it. That is what makes Scripture indispensable to the Christian journey of reconciliation. Scripture both forms Christian memory […]
The Journey – Feb. 7, 2019
The Journey One day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,though the voices around youkept shoutingtheir bad advice–though the whole housebegan to trembleand you felt the old tugat your ankles.“Mend my life!”each voice cried.But you didn’t stop.You knew what you had to do,though the wind priedwith its stiff fingersat the very foundations,though their […]
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 […]
