Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
00610 – We’re All Flailing
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00603 – Prayer is Taking a Chance
Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen…
00467 – The Mystery of Grace
It was amazing. I do not at all understand the mystery of grace, only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. It can be received gladly or grudgingly, in big gulps or in tiny tastes, like a deer at the salt. I gobbled it, licked it, held...
00149 – Three Truths of Our Existence
If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.
00140 – Three Things
The three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
00088 – Prayer and Change
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can’t imagine.
00034 – Baptism Gets You Wet!
Christianity is about water: “Everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.” It’s about baptism, for God’s sake. It’s about full immersion, about falling into something elemental and wet. Most of what we do in worldly life is geared toward our staying dry, looking...