I like to compare God’s love to the sunrise. That sun shows up every morning, no matter how bad you’ve been the night before. It shines without judgement. It never withholds. It warms the sinners, the saints, the druggies, the cheerleaders–the saved and the heathens alike. You can hide from the sun, but it won’t […]
But sometimes it seems easier to move a mountain, shoveling it with spoons, than to shift the sorrow or sickness from a human heart and life. –NT Wright in Lent from Everyone I have a house full of boxes that need unpacking…and while it looks overwhelming, I believe it can be done. I have a […]
I’m entertaining old demons today. They’ve come to visit and I can’t manage to send them away. When they visit they always stir up old shit based on some new hurt. A rejection A slight A fear A rough word A meanness A harsh touch And here they come to ask the old questions and […]
He put another parable to them. ‘The kingdom of heaven,’ he said, ‘is like a grain of mustard seed, which someone took and sowed in a field. It’s the smallest of all the seeds, but when it grows it turns into the biggest of the shrubs. It becomes a tree, and the birds in the […]
nihilism (noun) The rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless. Synonyms: Skepticism, negativity, cynicism, pessimism Last night as Dr. Cornell West shared the story of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and why his life is relevant to us today he said “Heschel believe that the major ecumenical movement […]
Whatever setbacks he had faced in his life, he said, however daunting or disporting the unfolding of events, he always knew that he would make it through, as long as when he woke in the morning he was looking forward to his first cup of coffee. In retrospect, my coffee has been the works of […]
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kids of disease among the people. —Matthew 4:23 Jesus went about healing people – which was the most dramatic way of showing them that ‘heaven’ really was in charge on […]
Ash Wednesday is over. Thursday has come. And with it…sacrifice. Those things I gave up yesterday when feeling ambitious are now coming to haunt me just a bit. If I gave up coffee…I’ve got that first caffeine headache hitting me about 10AM. If I gave up alcohol, inevitably someone will ask me to happy hour. […]
Whenever God does something new, he involves people – often unlikely people, frequently surprised and alarmed people. He asks them to trust him in a new way, to put aside their natural reactions, to listen humbly for a fresh word, and to act on it without knowing exactly how it’s going to work out. — NT […]
Shrove Tuesday (widely known as Pancake Day) is a day in February or March, preceding Ash Wednesday(the first day of Lent), which is celebrated in many countries by consuming pancakes. Pancakes are associated with the day preceding Lent because they were a way to use up rich foods such as eggs, milk, and sugar, before the fasting season of the 40 […]