You Can’t Go Home Again – Feb. 27, 2023
“Home is seldom where we think it is. Perhaps we are always leaving Eden from the moment we emerge from our mother’s body, the first day at kindergarten, through the storms of adolescence right down to the moment when we draw our last breath.” –Margaret Guenther, Walking Home: From Eden to Emmaus (Morehouse Publishing, 2011), p. 8
The Soul Playing Hide and Seek – Feb. 6, 2023
“We may feel some aspects of our self to be difficult, perhaps those associated with our past. Most often we find these hiding or in exile. We may feel proud of other aspects of ourselves, perhaps those associated with where we want to go. These may reveal themselves clearly, or they may be hidden as […]
Living in God’s Kingdom – Nov. 10, 2022
“When Merton told me that “one thing for sure about heaven is that there is not going to be much of you there,” he was, I think, referring to the mystery that even now we are in God’s kingdom. And that even now we can begin to realize it if we but die to egocentric […]
Seeking Elsewhere and Otherwise – Oct. 18, 2022
We are strange conundrums of faithfulness and fickleness.We cleave to you in all the ways that we are able.We count on you and intend our lives to be lived for you,and then we find ourselves among your peoplewho are always seeking elsewhere and otherwise. So we give thanks that you are the God who yearns […]
