When it's over, I want to say:all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was the bridegroomtaking the world into my arms.I don't want to end up simplyhaving visited this world. from New & Selected Poems
01554 – Not Just a Visitor
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01549 – Avoid Judging Others
No matter how compelling the temptation, no matter who else is doing it, no matter how frustrated you feel, avoid judging others. Pronouncing judgment on another person's life is less accurate than trying to call balls and strikes from the seats high atop the...
01548 – Singing: Our Glad Assent to God-givenness
We sing because life is God-given, God-sustained. and God-claimed. Our singing is our glad assent to that God-givenness and refusal to have our lives be less than, more than, or other than that. from "A Glad Obedience: Why and What We Sing"
01531 – The Holy Spirit: Presence of God
The Holy Spirit is the unrestricted presence of God in which our life wakes up, becomes wholly and entirely living, and is endowed with the energies of life.
01527 – Deep Calls to Deep
The deepest things I have learned in my own life have come from the deepest suffering. And out of the deepest waters and hottest fires have come the deepest things that I know about God.
01520 – Fear Lurks Behind Perfectionism
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.
01510 – Assists Get Us through Life
When you make a basket, you point to the player who threw the pass. That applies not just to basketball, but everything we do. No one makes it through life without lots of assists.
01508 – How Deeply Does Your Life Flow?
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.
01504 – Going Where Questions Lead
They said that if I questioned a 6,000-year-old earth, I would question whether other parts of Scripture should be read scientifically and historically. They were right. I did. They said that if I entertained the hope that those without access to the gospel might...
01500 – The Ideal of Kingship
It is this ideal of kingship that is manifested most perfectly in the life and mission of Jesus of Nazareth. ...The ideal of kingship furnished the content for the messianic tradition, the tradition which was fulfilled in the life of Christ and which is the challenge...