ContinueMy wish for youIs that you continueContinueTo be who and how you areTo astonish a mean worldWith your acts of kindnessContinueTo allow humor to lighten the burdenOf your tender heartContinueIn a society dark with crueltyTo let the people hear the grandeurOf...
God requires not the doing of the commandments for their own sake, but the correction of the soul, for whose sake He established the commandments.-----------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: God requires not the doing of the commandments for their...
Nowhere else in the Bible is God described as rich in anything. The only thing he is called rich in is: mercy.-----------------------------------Gender-neutral version: Nowhere else in the Bible is God described as rich in anything. The only thing God is called rich...
In silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
I believe your image of God creates you—or defeats you. There is an absolute connection between how we see God and how we see ourselves and the universe.
As Paul said, “We see through a glass, darkly” (1 Cor. 13:12 KJV). If we remember that, we might be able to avoid turning our fallible interpretations into infallible declarations of God’s truth. And yet we will continue to seek God’s truth, in the Bible and beyond....
For any of us feeling longing in Advent: Even though Jesus’ experience in the wilderness wasn’t easy—he fasted for forty days and forty nights and was confronted by the devil—the devil was not the only one he encountered there. The spirit sent Jesus into the...
Waiting in hope is an active spiritual practice. It requires a fundamental trust in God's faithfulness and the humility to allow the mystery of God's work to unfold over time.
It is easy to bow heads around a tableful of food and family this week and voice words of gratitude. It is more faithful — as followers of Jesus — to do so with a renewed commitment to expressing ongoing gratitude through generosity. Gratitude-driven generosity...
What you do in the present--by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself--will last into God's future. from Surprised by...