…we don’t choose trust as a formula to get what we want. Despite our faithfulness, terrible things will occasionally happen. Instead, we trust restorative Love because that is who we have become, and that is the way we relate to the world, even in the bleakest of circumstances.
Right there in the center of our worship space, God broke into our lives and handed each of us strength for the journey, hope for the day, and grace beyond compare.
This week most of us will seek God in a holy place. But the wise among us will be on the lookout, because wild and untamed holiness is out there beyond the walls and beyond the symbols.
The thing it reminds me of in our time is there always seems to be someone looking for somebody’s head on a platter, figuratively if not literally.
be aware that sometimes, God’s help comes in the guise of people you might never have expected to have the ability to change your mind.
Self-examination therefore must be coupled with prayer, with asking God to help me find my true longings, my authentic nature, in the midst of all the nattering and tugging of the secret voices within me.
The pageantry of Christmas is fun—but it also distracts us from understanding that after the presents have been unwrapped, the presence of Jesus in our lives is truly the enduring gift
by Kimberly Knowle-Zeller Two months after I graduated from college I flew to The Gambia, West Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer. At that
Thinking on your own relationship with God, what name would you give to God?
The world is full of barriers that we must deal with in some way or form, either by ignoring them and moving in another direction or figuring out a way to get over the barrier and continue the journey in a relatively straight line.