Cutting Our Losses
If your hand makes you sin, cut it off! Better that you should be maimed but obtain eternal life, rather than keep both hands and go to hell [Gei-Hinnom], to unquenchable fire!* As someone who doesn’t believe in hell, or in the kind of God who would send people there, what do I do with […]
A Token of God’s Presence – Aug. 27, 2021
“This faith will not offer me much to hold on to. It will not give me a safe place to settle. Practicing it will require me to celebrate the sacraments of defeat and loss, but since the religion I know best has a lot to say about losing as the precondition for finding, I can […]
Sabbath Grace – Apr. 21, 2021
Six days of work are spentto make a Sunday quietthat Sabbath may return.It comes in unconcern;we cannot earn or buy it.Suppose rest is not sentor comes and goes unknown,the light, unseen, unshown.Suppose the day beginsin wrath at circumstance,or anger at one’s friendsin vain self-innocencefalse to the very light,breaking the sun in half,or anger at oneselfwhose […]
The Need for Spiritual Medicine – Aug. 24, 2020
“Here on this side of eternity, we are asked to survive unsurvivable loss, and times of wailing, gnashing of teeth, heartbreak. It’s not a good system. If I was God’s West Coast representative, a job for which I am uniquely suited, I would have created an easier way through life, a way that made more […]
