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 […]
Dear loud breather next to me in yoga class, Thank you … Really, I mean it … thank you. For reminding me how much I still need to die to myself … For reminding me life is not about MY comfort, MY preferences, MY desires … For reminding me that loving my enemies can happen […]
Praying - by Mary Oliver "It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest, but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in […]
"God is absolutely and always present, intimately active and involved with us, and endlessly good." (Gerald May)
"God's love is based on nothing, and the fact that it is based on nothing should make us secure. Were it based on anything we do, and that 'anything' were to collapse, then God's love would crumble as well. But with the God of Jesus no such thing can possibly happen. People who realize this […]
Something I find myself pondering these days: Self-righteousness, in a group of people who claim to believe that the Scripture is correct when it says "There is no one righteous; not one ..." is an especially ugly trait. Particularly to a watching world ... It was actually one of the few sins Jesus seemed to […]
Jesus always stood on the side of the marginalized, the left out, the ones the religious elite labeled as "unclean," even outside of God's love. At what point in history did Christians start to believe that we should do otherwise? (Alice Shirey)
