When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
03351 – Nobody Noticed?
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02225 – Addicted to Story
We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories. from The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
01743 – Slow Me Down, Lord
Slow me down, Lord.Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind.Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time.Give me, amid the confusion of the day, the calmness of the everlasting hills.Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles with...
01578 – The Struggle is Real
Who can stay awake in this night of God? Who will not be as if paralyzed by it? Jesus' friends were protected from its terrors by a profound sleep. Luke, the doctor, and other witnesses speak of a "bloody sweat" which fell on the ground from the wakeful, imploring...
00533 – Resurrection is Unnatural
As someone has put it, the biblical understanding of human beings is not that they have bodies, but that they are bodies… Those who believe in the immortality of the soul believe that life after death is as natural a human function as waking after sleep. The Bible...
00014 – The Stuff of Prayer
“How was your day?”…A mother I know has a different way of asking the same question. As she tucks her children into bed each night, she asks them a question: “Where did you meet God today?” And they tell her, one by one: a teacher helped me; there was a homeless...