To Give Myself Freely – Oct. 8, 2020
“When I am afraid I am a house divided against itself. So more than anything else I want to be delivered from fear, for fear is alien to my own best interest or, to put it positively, I want to give myself generously, magnanimously, freely—out of love. I want to be able to take risks—to […]
Forgive Me – Oct. 2, 2020
Forgive me that I have not loved enough.Forgive me so that I can love you and others,no matter what their sins may be.Forgive me that I have not fully believedin the possibility and power of forgiveness.Forgive me so that I can forgive—others and myself. Amen. —Maren Tirabassi and Joan Jordan Grant, An Improbable Gift of […]
Unconditional Love – Sep. 23, 2020
“Unconditional love is that beautiful, hoped for impossibility, and yet we could not fully understand the nature of our helplessness without looking through the lens of that hoped-for perfection.” –David Whyte
Listening to Each Other – Sept. 7, 2020
“The first service one owes to others in a community involves listening to them. Just as our love for God begins with listening to God’s Word, the beginning of love for others is learning to listen to them. God’s love for us is shown by the fact that God not only gives God’s Word, but […]