The Lakota shaman Black Elk once said, "We don't have to heal the Earth; she can heal herself. All we have to do is stop making her sick." To this simple truth I would add that the Earth can heal us, too.
04256 – Stop Making Her Sick
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04218 – What We Need
We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.
04141 – Going to Heaven
Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven, when the whole of Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.
04140 – Some People…
Some people are so heavenly-minded that they are no earthly good.
04123 – Western Individualism?
I suspect that Western individualism has done more than any other single factor to anesthetize and even euthanize the power of the Gospel. Salvation, heaven, hell, worthiness, grace, and eternal life all came to be read through the lens of separate ego, crowding God's...
04092 – Make the World a Better Place
We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.
04046 – Why Jesus Came to Earth
Jesus didn’t come to earth to Subjugate Dominate Manipulate Segregate Control Neither should those that follow Jesus. He came to set free (and not just spiritually).
03970 – Grace & Gratitude
Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Grace evokes gratitude like the voice of an echo. Gratitude follows grace like thunder and lightning. from Church Dogmatics
03945 – No War is Worth That Level of Destruction
How I wish that no one would suffer and that we would work towards healing what sharply divides us. I think we need to talk about it. “War is what happens when language fails,” Margaret Atwood told us. But there are those who vehemently disagree. They will shout me...
03887 – Books Help Us Understand Life
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us...