To live in this world, we must learn how to stand in the tragic gap, the gap between what is and what could be, with faith and hope.
02763 – Standing in the Tragic Gap
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02723 – Tasting the Resurrection
We have longed to taste the resurrection. We have longed to welcome its thunders and quakes, and to echo its great gifts. We want to test the resurrection in our bones. We want to see if we might live in hope instead of in the twilight thicket of cultural despair in...
02710 – The Grace Walk Experience
If your story hasn’t had a happy ending, it hasn’t ended. Don’t project today’s pain into the future. Life can and often does change in an instant. Hold onto Hope. That is your lifeline and that is enough. That is the grace walk experience.
02642 – Who is to Blame?
What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth and content ourselves...
02612 – The Middle: Crucial Part of the Story
When we tell stories that start with a sudden beginning and jump to an ending that only God could write, we skip over a crucial part of the story: the middle. The place where we wait. Where we sit in silence. Where we have no answers. Where our hearts ache and we...
02465 – Need to Borrow My Hope?
Hope is an expectation of good that is yet to be.It's an expression of the present alive with a sense of the possible.I try to find hope.And I share my hope with others who may need to borrow it. from 365 Days of Understanding Your Grief
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...
01522 – Not All Crazy & Hopeless On the Same Day
Maybe more than ever before in my lifetime, my friends and I are aware of our brokenness and the deep crazy, the desperation for light, hope, food, and medicine for the poor. What helps is that we are not all crazy and hopeless on the same day.