Featured: The dissolution of a dream ...
A big, beautiful spider has set up her home outside my kitchen window. I have grown attached to her presence and greet her each morning, watching her work or sleep while I take my first few sips of coffee. For those who hate spiders, I see you. But she is where she belongs (outside) and […]
"I am a barbarously early riser ... I love the empty, silent, dewy, cobwebby hours." (CS Lewis)
"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 […]
"To struggle used to be to grab with both hands and shake and twist and turn and push and shove and not give in but wrest an answer from it all as Jacob did a blessing. But there is another way to struggle with an issue, a question -- Simply to jump off into the […]
It's a beautiful, late-summer day here in Iowa. The humidity is high; the sun, too ... The crickets are chirping. You can almost hear the corn growing. And I have the day free. I can't describe to you the joy. I have a list of things I wanted to do ... It started with sitting […]
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 […]
A Question: How would you live today differently if you really believed God's only command for you was to love? And by love, I mean love in the same way that God in Christ has loved you. No limits. No conditions. No earning. No withholding. Unconditional, sacrificial love. Try it.
