We remember too the loved ones into whose dear eyes we cannot look again. O God, in whom are both the living and the dead, you are still their life and light as you are ours. Wherever they may be, lay your hand tenderly upon them and grant that someday we may meet...
A theology of advocacy is a love that speaks up.
Jesus returns every time we forgive ourselves and others, love unconditionally, extend mercy, offer compassion, act with loving-kindness, feed the hungry, protect the oppressed, heal the sick, visit the prisoner, speak truth to power, make peace, seek reconciliation,...
That grief that lingers in your heart, or for some is intense and ever present...it's there because you loved, gave and received love, else grief would not exist. So, in your sorrow, may you experience the sweetness of knowing you loved deeply, now a gift that cannot...
Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another's feet.
When we are filled with love for other people, injustice becomes intolerable.
Christ's greatest commandment wasn't "convert your neighbor." It was "love your neighbor." If love becomes conditional... If love is reduced to an evangelistic tool... If love becomes just another way of making people be just like us... We've deeply misunderstood the...
The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love--whether we call it friendship or family or romance--is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Lifesaving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude...
With life as short as a half taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.
The person who's in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.