Listening well helps me learn a stranger’s personal language. I learn their joys, what they are stumped by, what moves them. The stories are magnificent; they are jewels. Christ is right there in the middle of them.
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…we wait for healing together and, in concert with our Baptismal vows, we pledge to be conduits through whom God brings healing and renewal to others. We also commit to allowing other human beings to be vessels through whom God brings healing and renewal to us, for receiving is always its own kind of courage.
Betsy, Greg, and Liz welcome special guest Stephen McHale to talk about the legacy of the 1990s. How do the events and pop culture of
Prayer, like a good pickle, adds texture and flavor to life, and offers us a chance to balance a life of busy-ness with a bit of tang or even sweetness.
Distracted, reluctant, confused, or apathetic you may be on any given Sunday, but if you go, something will happen
I have read dozens of descriptions of this moment of totality. None captures the awe I felt when I saw our star occluded, a disc surrounded by an eerie luminescence. It was white – bluish white – purplish, bluish white – a unnatural, unearthly color – and dumbfounding, breath stopping.
…the resounding echo of the music of the heavens lingered in my ear as it never had to me before, a low susurration resident in the beautiful stillness of the amethyst light that lay over us like a mantle.
We’re doers and helpers and pastors. It comes naturally to us. It’s easy. It’s what we do. What’s not easy is being on the receiving end of such gifts. What’s not easy is simply receiving.
I wonder what might be unleashed if we unraveled the stories that are based on lies and instead wove stories of truth, accepting each strand, every color and hue. What power might be unleashed in the world, our church, in our lives?
if we are fortunate enough to be healed enough to see, we will be surprised to discover what the things we never saw look like. We might see we got some of it smashingly wrong; at the very least, we might discover what we never even knew existed.