Teach Me Your Way – May 18, 2023

“Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart that I may fear your name. I will praise you, O lord, my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever.” -Psalm 86:13-14

God Is In Charge – Apr. 27, 2022

“The prudence I pride myself on to solve hard problems? That is a gift from God. The faith I rely on in difficult times? That is a gift from God. Even my desire to do what is right instead of wrong, that too is a gift from God. I am radically, totally, utterly dependent upon […]

Pouring Out Joy – Apr. 26, 2022

“In these days when nothing is constant, a single cup of constancy feels luxurious, even miraculous. Most of us don’t long for the whole world to be ours. We don’t crave constant praise from acolytes who guard our egos from injury. We aren’t consumed by the desire to have the entire banquet of life focused […]

Landscape as Theophany – Feb. 18, 2022

“To experience the landscape as a theophany is to take seriously the way the divine can be revealed through nature and through created things. It means we can join with all of the elements and creatures in singing God’s praise.” –Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul’s Slow Ripening, p. 134