I Will Light Candles This Christmas – Dec. 27, 2021
[Kim Montroll, close friend and Bread of Life core member, has been readingThe Mood of Christmas & Other Celebrations by Howard Thurman this Advent season. She is the moderator of our mission group, and has been reading these before we descend into our shared silence before doing our outward work each Thursday morning. I hope it brings […]
Get Over Yourself – Dec. 14, 2021
“Sometimes I’m so thick that God has no choice but to be almost embarrassingly obtuse. Like sending me a hurting kid with glistening lines cut in her arm – a kid with protective pink bangs, a kid who doesn’t fit, a kid who in her own way said to me, Oh hey, God told me to […]
Start at the Center – Nov. 29, 2021
“The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet… This is the basic substance of life. These are the individual elements that form the bigger entities like mass, future, world. We may neglect these elements, but we cannot dispense with them. They are the […]
There Will Be Signs…
When I read about Jesus warning his disciples that there will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, distress among nations, and people fainting from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world,* I feel like I am reading the newspaper instead of words written two thousand years ago. Every […]
