“One morning at 4 am (I’m not sure this even counts as morning) I hear Isaac talking to himself. I find him awake and alert playing with his stuffed animals and blankets. ‘I’m playing library, mommy. My workers are busy.'”
In a world full of lies, half-truths and spin, discerning the truth is hard work. None of us should believe we can do it on our own; multiple perspectives can reveal more than any one of us on our own. But if we can honestly bring into conversation what we see of the truth, and also bring in the possibility that we might need to change our own minds, we’ve got a good chance. Otherwise we might outsmart ourselves to death.
Father Duvert says the community has been ravaged by the pandemic. It’s one reason he and church leaders are working hard to promote the vaccines and convince the skeptics.
“Thankfully, we do not all have the same gifts and, our Christian mission aside, we do not all have the same vocational calls. Not everyone is called to be on the front line of advocacy; not everyone is called to sit and listen deeply to traumatic events in others’ lives; not everyone is called to rouse the spirit with music and song; not everyone is called to gather groups together.”
The other day, as I was glazing bread bowls in a stormy blue glaze with a line of glazed pots on the shelf by the glaze buckets, I dropped a mug into the Stellar Rust glaze which then splashed all over the blue bread bowl. I let out a few bad words, aware that now I had to wash the entire bowl and start again after a few days of drying -delayed now for some other firing.
Special guest Corey Bruins joins for a lively conversation about turning the temple into a market place, what is righteous anger, and remembering to notice the impact of our words and actions on the world around us.
A look in to the amazing life of Catherine of Siena, mystic, activist, author, and doctor of the church
“The only answer to the question of sin is Jesus”
“To a Pharisee who observed to perfection the purity laws, the idea of a bloody, naked Messiah, powerless and on display before everyone in his helplessness as he died, must have been beyond abhorrent. It must have been incomprehensible. But Paul had been protesting way too much. In his soul he had always been a Jesus-follower.”
“With God, there is no social distancing, masking, or sanitizing. We can just be as we are, without fear, through sickness and health, abnormal times, or regular times. Think how grateful we should be when we finally reach “normal” times again. God will be there waiting for us, just as God is now, by our sides, walking with us.”