Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.
04216 – The Body of Christ
... whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world, or the Christian world or the non-believing world, they are members of the Body of Christ because they’ve been called by God. They may not even know the name of Jesus but they know in their hearts...
04021 – Treasured Diversity
Ever present God, you called us to be in relationship with one another and promised to dwell wherever two or three are gathered. In our community, we are many different people; we come from many different places, have many different cultures. Open our hearts that we...
03996 – Music is Physical
Music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, your breath. We’re walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn’t get to any other way.
03775 – Whisper of the Heart
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.
03768 – Room in Our Hearts
It is no use to say that we are born 2000 years too late to give room to Christ. Nor will those who live at the end of the world have been born too late. Christ is always with us, always asking for room in our hearts.
03741 – “Sunday Prayer”
On Pentecost the real miraclewas not the momentary wonderof people speaking languagesthey hadn't been taught,but the lasting miracleof people making connectionsdespite all their separations,discovering how they were alikedespite apparent differences,knowing...
03687 – The Loudest Voice?
May the still small voice of Jesus always be the loudest voice in our hearts and minds.
03672 – Only by Dying…
IF DEATH WAS TO be truly defeated, it was only by dying himself that Jesus believed he could defeat it. If he was to reach the hearts of men, it was only by suffering his own heart to be broken on their behalf that he believed he could reach them. To heal the sick and...
03639 – The Responsibility of Love
The responsibility of love: To keep another's heart safe