This Kind Moment – Dec. 22, 2022
The way the light falls through the windows. The sounds our silence makes when we come together like this. The sense we have of each other’s presence. The feeling in the air that one way or another we are all of us here to give each other our love, and to give God our […]
The Power of Goodness – Dec. 15, 2022
““The power of the Most High will overshadow you,” the monastic liturgy prays during Advent. But who really believes it? We spend our lives, as nations and as individuals, waiting to be saved by the power of our own achievements or the power of destructive force. And yet, it is the clear, soft, consuming, overshadowing […]
Gifted with These Bodies – Aug. 22, 2022
“We have not been burdened with this world and this flesh in order that we might weasel our way out. Rather, we have been gifted with this world and these bodies because this is where God dwells. All flesh is holy, and the ground of all human endeavors is sacred. It is in these bodies […]
Rules for the Journey
Jesus appoints a group of 72 to go ahead of him. They will test the waters, see where the welcome waits and where it does not. More importantly, they will leave the secure camaraderie of their tight circle and venture forth, two by two, into God’s wide world of blessed and bewildered people. To prepare […]
