Heavy – May 23, 2022
That timeI thought I could notgo any closer to griefwithout dying I went closer,and I did not die.Surely Godhad his hand in this, as well as friends.Still, I was bent,and my laughter,as the poet said, was nowhere to be found.Then said my friend Daniel(brave even among lions),“It is not the weight you carry but how […]
How to Love
My heart sinks when I read the “new commandment” that Jesus gave to his followers: to love one another as he had loved them, because I know how far I am from that standard.* Pictures from all four gospels flood my mind: Jesus welcoming outcasts and misfits, “unclean” women and noisy children, leaders like Nicodemus and foreigners […]
May It Be So – May 13, 2022
“Sometimes we make religion much too complicated. Christianity, at bottom, is the simplest religion that ever existed: Love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Keep following, keep praying, keep loving. If we do these three things, and persist in doing them, day after day, week after week, […]
Now I Am a People – May 12, 2022
“When we live into the vision of safety and love for all, then all of us will experience inward healing. All of us will be able to say together, “Once I was nobody, but now I am someone. Once I was a part of no people, but now I am one of God’s people.”” -N. Gordon Cosby, Seized […]