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 […]
Resurrection in the Least Likely Places – May 6, 2022
“And to say “Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy” is to lay our hope in the redeeming work of the God of Easter as though our lives depended on it. Because they do. It means that we are an Easter people, a people who know that resurrection, especially in and among the […]
Independence – Mar. 31, 2022
“A mind that is single and sincere is not interested in being good, in conducting relations with other people so as to live up to a rule. Nor, on the other hand, is it interested in being free, in acting perversely just to prove its independence.” ―Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity, p. 132
Developing Discernment – Mar. 10, 2022
“Jesus asks, “Do you love me?” Jesus sends us out to be shepherds, and Jesus promises a life in which we increasingly have to stretch out our hands and be led to places where we would rather not go. He asks us to move from a concern for relevance to a life of prayer, from […]