Featured: Pleasure is a thing ...
Down near the bottom of the crossed-out list of things you have to do today, between "green thread" and "broccoli," you find that you have penciled "sunlight." Resting on the page, the word is beautiful. It touches you as if you had a friend and sunlight were a present sent from someplace distant as this […]
So many people I know are taking care of others right now. Helping grown children launch, caring for hurting neighbors, walking alongside those suffering deeply, watching parents age, listening to people carrying the heavy weight of depression, or anxiety, or grief. It is beautiful to me how God uses people to help other people have […]
"Come then ... let us be resigned to our frailty and dependence on God, who would never reduce us to being unable to walk on our own feet if he had not the mercy to carry us in his arms." (Jean-Pierre de Caussade)
"Every morning I must say again to myself, today I start." (Anthony of the Desert)
Jesus said that above all else ... above ALL ELSE, people will know we are his followers by the way we love. How are we doing with that these days? I love how Fyodor Dostoyevsky puts it in his book The Brothers Karamazov: "Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love […]
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places." (Ernest Hemingway)
Forgive me for the repetition of theme this week. But I am concerned that I do not have an adequate theology of suffering, and am working hard to fill my mind with good and deep thoughts on the topic. So, here is an incredible bit of writing from the queen of grief, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross: "The […]
