When you hear someone "making room" for bigotry embedded in state law or church polity, look at who they are. If they are not one of the people oppressed by that policy, but they're making room for it, they are complicit in the oppression, not at all a neutral...
From his hospital bed this morning (one-day stay for a minor procedure), Dad asked me to please help him with flowers and a cake for Mom’s birthday. She is turning 75 this weekend. Once at the store, I had to send multiple pictures of options to him before he was...
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices. from Love Beyond Reason
I understand now that I'm not a mess, but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often. I say, "for the same reason I laugh so often--because I'm paying attention."
Instructions for living a life:Pay attention.Be astonished.Tell about it.
I am a pastor. My work has to do with God and souls--intense mysteries that no one has ever seen at any time....I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of...
Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.
Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.
We all need hope. No sparkling promises or wishes. No well laid intentions or plans. Hope. Four letters. Four letters that carry the weight of our whole world and all of our life hidden in the depth of their meaning. Whether we are waiting on a check to arrive, a door...
Every single person has a story that will break your heart. And if you're paying attention, many people...have a story that will bring you to your knees. Nobody rides for free.