When we choose to love, we choose to face death, and grief and loss, again and again and again. Just as much as we choose the friendlier parts of love. It's all there, present and contained, in everything.
02815 – Choosing Love
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02764 – A Different Expression of Church
A microchurch will become a different expression of church than its congregation-based cousin. It is not for everyone, nor is it the replacement of centuries of church practice. But it might well serve the post-congregational Christians who, for a variety of reasons,...
02738 – Picking and Choosing
For those who count the Bible as sacred, interpretation is not a matter of WHETHER to pick and choose, but HOW to pick and choose. ...So the question we have to ask ourselves is this: are we reading with the prejudice of love, with Christ as our model, or are we...
02654 – There is Something More
You may have been reminded of another popular book while reflecting on the vision of God's open-ended, creative, and lively adventure and on your own role as a partner with God in healing the world. Many persons have found a greater sense of meaning through reading...
02538 – Musical Memories for the Soul
When you sing with children, you are creating memories ... musical memories for the soul. In this high tech world the music we choose to sing with children makes us responsible for what we put into their hearts. from "The Chorister"
02376 – Choose to Offer True Hope
Those who choose, even on a small scale, to love in the midst of hatred and fear are the people who offer true hope to our world.
02260 – God’s Divine Love
God does not give Divine Love except to people who really want this, choose this, and say "yes" to this. Divine Love is so pure that it never manipulates, shames, or forces itself on anyone. Love waits to be invited and desired, and only then rushes in.
02241 – Choose Joy!
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
02158 – Seeking New Beginnings
Many of us today in the Western world are aware that the old order is not working—politically, socially, environmentally, religiously. Countless numbers of us from the Christian community have already lifted anchor and are sailing out of the harbor of our religious...
02152 – Our Children: Extensions of Ourselves
When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us...