So Small – June 28, 2021
I am so small I can barely be seen.How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small,but they see enormous things. -Jelaluddin Rumi, trans. by Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi, p. 279
Family of Faith – June 10, 2021
“[God’s] love is most vividly and radically demonstrated when [God’s] own followers, [God’s] brothers and sisters, band together and actually serve one another… when we have no “family of faith” to which we belong and where daily, practical deeds of love are expressed, we are at risk of failing to minister to Christ himself.” -Charles […]
It Takes Time – June 9, 2021
“Those who love one another spend time together… Time is crucial if we are to serve one another as Jesus served his disciples. It takes time to wash one another’s feet. It takes time to outdo one another in love and good works. It takes time to show one another hospitality.” -Charles E. Moore, from […]
Specific Love – June 7, 2021
“God’s love is very specific… God’s universal love and [God’s] great mercy for the world are ultimately known and revealed in the particularity of human beings loving each other as [siblings].” -Charles E. Moore, from “Next Door” in Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People, p. 292-293