We need your weirdness to remind us that there’s wonder in a world that often feels cold and pointless. We need your groove to beckon us to dance when we’re tempted to run from one thing to the next. Your weirdness is a gift to us, an invitation to take notice of the...
03935 – Religion and Our Emotions
If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.
03606 – An Unchanging God
Here is a foundation that you can build your life on that will never fail. The God who always endures and is always the same can establish your life securely and that of generations to come. In a changing world, it is a wonderful thing to know an unchanging God. from...
03268 – Wonderful Day!
This is a wonderful day; I have never seen this one before.
03025 – Essential of Daily Life
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and I play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction...
02960 – How Many People?
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
02778 – I asked for Wonder
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.-------------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked...
02468 – Don’t Ask. Help.
Do not ask your childrento strive for extraordinary lives.Such striving may seem admirable,but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life.Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples, and pears.Show them how...
02146 – The Beautiful Way of Jesus
So what are we inviting ourselves and others into? For those who’ve been out for a while, what are we inviting them back to? ...When we can step out of our institutional concerns, reconnecting with the essence of our faith, we remember the Way of life to which Jesus...