The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
04211 – Battles Inside Ourselves
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02777 – Life of a Creative
The life of a creative is a lonely one. You think you are alone as the years go by. Yet, if the stars are on your side, you may discover that you are at the center of a vast circle of invisible friends whom you will never get to know but whom love you. And that is an...
02774 – No Witnesses at the Resurrection
The resurrection took place apart from any eyewitness to it. This is how God works. God is the Mystery of the world, and if we are to have faith at all it will always be after the fact of God's invisible working. We get to see only after we don't see.
01502 – Making Grace Visible
I think my job is to make the grace of an invisible God, visible wherever I am.
01344 – Risk Everything to Gain Everything
Sooner or later, if we follow Christ we have to risk everything in order to gain everything. We have to gamble on the invisible and risk all that we can see and taste and feel. But we know the risk is worth it, because there is nothing more insecure than the transient...
01066 – Church Women are Sometimes “Invisible”
Jesus shows us, when women lack jurisdiction, church commissions lack women, and even altar girls are barred in a Christian community that says they are permitted, the invisibility of women in the church threatens the very nature of the church. from In the Heart of...
00384 – Church: Invisible, Visible, or Both?
The visible church is all the people who get together from time to time in God’s name. Anybody can find out who they are by going to look. The invisible church is all the people God uses for his hands and feet in this world. Nobody can find out who they are except...
00284 – A Few Clear Images of God
I do not feel the need to see all of God at once, to comprehend God, as if I even could. It is enough for me to have a few clear images of how God is. So long as they resonate with Scripture and with my experience and so long as they produce in me the fruits of the...
00182 – No Ideal Church
There is no ideal church, no invisible church… No, it is the church of parking lots and potluck dinners that comprises the ones formed and forming the continuing story of Jesus Christ in the world.
00143 – God in the Flesh
Do not grieve or complain that you were born in a time when you can no longer see God in the flesh. He did not in fact take this privilege from you. As he says, “Whatever you have done to the least of my brothers and sisters, you have done to me.” —————Gender-neutral...