A Brief Stop… – Apr. 2, 2021
It could all go in a minute. It WILL all go in a minute.This life is a brief stop, whether I die tomorrow or in fifty years.I would love not to know this, to have the innocent certainty that,when loved ones set out on a journey, they will return unharmed,that I can go out to […]
Opening Prayer – Mar. 17, 2021
You are above me, O God,you are within.You are in all thingsyet contained by no thing.Teach me to seek you in all that has lifethat I may see you as the Light of life.Teach me to search for you in my own depthsthat I may find you in every living soul. -John Philip Newell, Sounds […]
Part of a Larger Story – Mar. 4, 2021
“The gospel means that every small story is part of a sweeping story, every ordinary life part of an extraordinary movement. God is busy making all things new, and the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus has opened that work to everyone who wants in on it.” –Rachel Held Evans, Inspired, p. 157
On Death – Jan. 22, 2021
Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?The transient pleasures as a vision seem,And yet we think the greatest pain’s to die. How strange it is that man on earth should roam,And lead a life of woe, but not forsakeHis rugged path; nor dare he […]