A crown is placed over our heads that for the rest of our lives we are trying to grow tall enough to wear.
01474 – A Crown Over My Head
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01473 – Thinking and Living Missionally
To think and to live missionally means seeing all life as a way to be engaged with the mission of God in the world.
01456 – Holding On to Darkness and Light
Our Christian wisdom is to name the darkness as darkness, and the Light as light, and to learn how to live and work in the Light so that the darkness does not overcome us. If we have a pie-in-the-sky, everything-is-beautiful attitude, we are in fact going to be...
01445 – Make a Difference where We Live
Our real freedom comes from being aware that we don't have to save the world, merely make a difference in the place where we live.
01440 – Fearing the In-Between
The issue is not that people fear change so much as they fear the in-between. What is known is what is comfortable, even if it is not the healthiest of situations. Anything that brings uncertainty into our lives can be paralyzing. People are inclined to stay in the...
01438 – Jesus Understands Us
The person to whom we pray, the man we hope to follow, the one who is risen from the dead, understands us--because he lived a human life, and one that, particularly in his final week, was filled with suffering. from Seven Last Words: An Invitation to a Deeper...
01431 – The “Unfixable” Aspects of Our Lives
In the preface to Margaret Guenther's Holy Listening, Alan Jones notes that spirituality deals with the "unfixable" aspects of our lives. His words remind us that darkness also has a light of its own. Within the darkness, the seedling grows. Within the womb, a new...
01429 – Joining God’s Holy Adventure
While an adventurous spirituality does not claim to provide scientific data that proves God's ever-transforming power throughout the universe, the vision of God's holy adventure boldly asserts that God is continually working in our personal, planetary, and cosmic...
01425 – Power and Corruption; Powerlessness & Self-Hatred
Isaiah understood what Lord Acton failed to note, that it is not only power that tends to corrupt, and absolute power absolutely; powerlessness does the same. It produces lives dreary with self-hatred and stingy with hope. from Credo
01412 – Radical Act of Resistance
Perhaps the most radical act of resistance in the face of adversity is to live joyfully.