Put on Truth – Dec. 7, 2022
“You must put on the armor of God… with truth as the belt around your waist, justice as your breastplate, and zeal to spread the Good News of peace as your footgear.” -Ephesians 6:13-15, The Inclusive Bible
Magnaminity
I remember when my husband and I had just indulged in giant-scoop ice cream cones of our favorite flavor, jamoca almond fudge. Stumbling on the cobblestone pavement, his cone flipped, and the ice cream fell out. A young child behind us gasped and stepped up, holding out her own cone as solace. Who could have imagined this magnanimous […]
Out Beyond Understanding – Nov. 11, 2022
“If one reaches the point where understanding fails, this is not a tragedy: it is simply a reminder to stop thinking and start looking. Perhaps there is nothing to figure out after all: perhaps we only need to wake up.” -Thomas Merton quoted by James Finley, Merton’s Palace of Nowhere, p. 125
The Gift of Being a Person – Nov. 9, 2022
“Both true prayer and love for others are selfless, in that they lead us toward and emerge from a simultaneous death to self and discovery of a new self born of God. Both prayer and service to others reveal to us the tremendous truth that to be a person is to be a gift, and […]
