"To be Christian is to be grateful." (Karl Barth)
"To take the holy scriptures and read them is the first thing we have to do to open ourselves to God's call. Reading the scriptures is not as easy as it seems ... We tend to make anything and everything we read subject to analysis and discussion. But the word of God should lead us […]
Read this today and loved it: Hiddenness is an essential quality of the spiritual life. Solitude, silence, ordinary tasks, being with people without great agendas, sleeping, eating, working, playing ... all of that without being different from others, that is the life that Jesus lived and the life he asks us to live. It is […]
"I count it as an absolute certainty that in paradise, everyone naps. A nap is a perfect pleasure and it's useful too. It splits the day into two halves, making each half more manageable and enjoyable. How much easier it is to work in the morning if we know we have a nap to look […]
"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm then, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery." (Galatians 5:1) and ... "If your version of Christianity doesn't make you feel free, you are doing it wrong." (Andy Stanley)
From all that I said about our worried, over-filled lives, it is clear that we are usually surrounded by so much inner and outer noise that it is hard to truly hear our God when he is speaking to us. We have often become deaf, unable to know when God calls us and unable to […]
