Letting Go – Mar. 16, 2020
“Dwelling on this thought of letting go, and handing myself over to the Spirit will bring me much closer to the experience of Jesus than the word “discipline” that so many of us have been trained to invoke at the beginning of Lent. It should help us smile at our anxious attempts to bring our […]
Look Them in the Face – Mar. 14, 2019
“In Dorothy L. Sayer’s novel Gaudy Night one of the characters recalls the extempore prayer of a well-meaning but incoherent curate, heard once and never forgotten, “Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.” Taking our hearts and looking them in the face is the […]
A Different Surrender – Mar. 13, 2019
“Perhaps the word “surrender” should be enough for my prayer… Not the surrender of submission to an enemy, but the opposite, the laying down of resistance to the One who loves me infinitely more than I can guess, the One who is more on my side than I am myself. Dwelling on this thought of […]
