What I find distinct about gratitude in the wilderness is its simplicity -- the thankfulness I feel here is for what I usually take for granted... For the most part, gratitude here wells up unexpectedly, in the quiet corners of the day, over events small and ordinary....
03150 – Sticks and Stones…
Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
03022 – Our Mosaic Reveals God’s Face
A mosaic consists of thousands of little stones. Each of us is like a little stone, but together we reveal the face of God to the world.
02805 – Throwing Stones?
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
02370 – Blessing of the Magi
There is no reversingthis road.The path that bore you heregoes in one direction only,every step drawing youdown a wayby which you will notreturn.You thought arrivalwas everything,that your entire journeyended with kneelingin the placeyou had spent allto find.When you...
02140 – The Company of Believing People
Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live, and teach.
01188 – Jesus Speaks about Oneness
When Jesus talks about this Oneness, he is not speaking in an Eastern sense about an equivalency of being, such that I am in and of myself divine. What he more has in mind is a complete, mutual indwelling: I am in God, God is in you, you are in God, we are in each...
01043 – Ten Commandments vs. Law Books
The reason we have 17,000 pages in our law books is because we cannot follow 10 lines on a tablet made of stone.
00660 – Let Us Not Mock God
Let us not mock God with metaphor,analogy, sidestepping, transcendence;making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the faded credulity of earlier ages:let us walk through the door.The stone is rolled back, not papier-mache,not a stone in a story,but the vast rock...
00390 – Two Types of Communities
Some communities are defined by proximity, structured of wood or stone or brick and bound by lines on a map. But the community of believers is made of holy, living stones cemented with the mortar of Christ’s love, crossing all lines, and having no permanent address.