God’s Feast – Jan. 31, 2023
“God has invited each and every one of us to the great feast that can be our life. It is a feast where joy overshadows our normal worries and pains and where the smallness of our lives is transformed into the largeness of God’s dream. It is a feast where each of us has a […]
Carrying the Wounds – June 8, 2022
“Even if we stay alive, we shall carry the wounds with us throughout our lives. And yet I don’t think that life is meaningless. And God is not accountable to us for the senseless harm we do to one another… I’ve already died a thousand times in a thousand concentration camps. I know about everything […]
Being Saints – Feb. 15, 2022
“Alan Jones describes saints as those who “have been allowed to see into themselves and have not refused to look.” This reminds me of David Whyte’s provocative question in one of his poems: “Why are we the one terrible part of creation privileged to refuse our own flowering?” The path of brokenness is lined with […]
Blessing – Sep. 3, 2021
“Within each struggle, there is a blessing waiting to happen. The biblical passage of Jacob struggling with a messenger of God is a symbolic story of our own struggle with the unwanted parts of our life. Allduring the long night (the darkness), Jacob wrestles with this unknown figure (our unwanted lifeexperiences). Jacob is wounded in […]
