Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
03309 – Seeking Love?
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03021 – Be Kind!
It's better to be kind than to be right.
02857 – “Refuge in Grief”
Here's what I most want you to know: this really is as bad as you think. No matter what anyone else says, this sucks. What has happened cannot be made right. What is lost cannot be restored. There is no beauty here, inside this central fact. Acknowledgement is...
02852 – “I Worried”
I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the riversflow in the right direction, will the earth turnas taught, and if not how shallI correct it?Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven,can I do better?Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrowscan do it and I...
02850 – God, Always Better…
I remain stubbornly committed to this notion: God will always be better than our ideas of God.
02554 – Say So? Be So!
It is better to be Christians without saying so than to say so without being so.
02353 – Put Your Hand in God’s Hand
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way."
02146 – The Beautiful Way of Jesus
So what are we inviting ourselves and others into? For those who’ve been out for a while, what are we inviting them back to? ...When we can step out of our institutional concerns, reconnecting with the essence of our faith, we remember the Way of life to which Jesus...
01859 – A Meaningful Life
To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you. That's what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one's community.
01856 – Now is the Time!
We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren't old enough, and we'll be more content when they are. After that, we're frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will...