The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
04197 – Blindness & Vision
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02471 – Motherly Love
I believe in the love of mothers. It is stronger than steel and softer than down. It closes wounds and melts disappointments. But I believe that this love, even at its best, is only a shadow of the love of God. The most beautiful sight in the world is a mother who...
02315 – Dark & Light
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
02182 – People God Loves
Maybe it's conservatives, or progressives, or a neighbor, or a church member who incessantly says horrible things, who acts unjustly toward others, and plagues us whenever we see them. I know, just the sight of them causes the blood to boil. So much depends upon our...
01970 – May The Way I Live be Acceptable, O God
May the words of my mouth and...the motives in my heart,...the appointments on my calendar,...the texts on my phone,...the posts on my page,...the allocations in my portfolio,...the steps on my Fitbit,...the history on my search engine,...the books on my Kindle,...the...
01945 – Traveling the Journey
Never forget where you've been. Never lose sight of where you're going. And never take for granted the people who travel the journey with you.
01742 – Talk about Poverty
We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.
01711 – Whiteness: Oppressive, Whether Intentional or Not
At my Christian elementary school, we sang, “Jesus loves the little children…red and yellow, black and white, all are precious in his sight.” In alignment with this song, white people often professed, “I don’t even see color,” reassuring me that I would be safe from...
01308 – Following Jesus as “The Way”
The metaphor of blindness and seeing is not only prominent in the teaching of Jesus, but also found in stories about his giving sight to blind people. There are three, two in Mark and one in John. They clearly have a metaphorical meaning, even as one or more may well...
00114 – Prayer to God
Grant me, O Lord, to know what I ought to know, to love what I ought to love, to praise what delights thee most, to value what is precious in thy sight, to hate what is offensive to thee.