
Speaking to the Soul: Belonging to God
We owe it to each other to leave our too-small homes for the wide realm in which we are all related and all precious beyond measure.
We owe it to each other to leave our too-small homes for the wide realm in which we are all related and all precious beyond measure.
Even when sitting alone at my desk to pray my prayers in the morning, I am never alone.
That’s the power of this prayer; the power of Jesus’ admonition to pray. There is such beauty in this prayer. It’s this prayer that unites us into community. It’s this prayer that comes to us in our deepest need and our deepest joy.
“Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me and Thank you, thank you, thank you.’” Anne Lamott
Now and then there comes a moment when time seems to stop, even for the merest fraction of a second, and in that fraction of a second something becomes so clear that it’s almost heartbreaking.
Is prayer worth doing? The Revd. Giles Fraser writes in The Guardian on what prayer does and does not do. “Can everyone stop all this
Owanah Anderson, Choctaw elder, wise warrior woman, beloved friend/mentor, fierce Episcopalian, died today.
Bass, a lifelong Episcopalian, takes his faith seriously but also thinks a bit of humor goes a long way when evangelizing.
Love can only exist where there is freedom to choose and it cannot be a false choice where we return to God out of a sense of duty or obligation.
Living, moving and having our being, like tadpoles in the great pond of God, we unfold the truth, and it is this which makes us free.