Everyone Yearns for a Call – Jan. 27, 2023
“Assume that everyone yearns. Scratch a person on the surface, even someone who is all crusted up in stale attitudes and ego entanglements, and you will find a soul beneath, one ready to grow, if only invited in a way that person can hear.” –John P. Schuster, Answering Your Call, p. 132
What Did I Expect?
When I agreed to follow Jesus, I had no idea what I was getting into. I was forty years old, and had spent most of my life alternately yearning for and avoiding a deeper relationship with God. When I was in my early teens, I went to a Jewish summer camp in the San Bernardino […]
Grace and Impatience – Oct. 19, 2022
In our secret yearningswe wait for your coming,and in our grinding despairwe doubt that you will.And in this privileged placewe are surrounded by witnesses who yearn more than do weand by those who despair more deeply than do we.Look upon your church and its pastorsin this season of hopewhich runs so quickly to fatigueand in […]
Take the Trouble – Oct. 11, 2022
“How many people today allow themselves any strong personal feeling and real yearning, or take the trouble to spend their strength freely in working out and carrying out that yearning, and letting it bear fruit?” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, p. 271
