
…for thereunto wast thou created
by Kimberly Knowle-Zeller Psalm 103:1-2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, * and all that is within me, bless his holy Name. Bless
God is like the lover who just can’t see your point of view.
The question of bearing burdens for another and carrying my own load doesn’t seem so separate that I can’t think of them together.
The next time you hear the first verse of “Eternal Father, strong to save”, will you remember the Dorchester Chaplains?
In the straw of our mean-spirited self-aggrandizement and -justification, in the shadowy barn of our hunger for power and esteem is this precious bit of God.
Jesus is certainly not making light of domination. But what if he is shedding light on it in a new way by saying: We are all blessed and woe-d?! Not one of us will outrun the plodding course of change. We are in it together. Blessing and woe. Woe and blessing.
by Kimberly Knowle-Zeller Psalm 61 Hear my cry, O God, * and listen to my prayer. I call upon you from the ends of
As refugees we have found refuge, and we are to become a refuge too.
We can’t go back to being 4 or 5 again, trusting that everything in life is beautiful, good, and a source of curiosity to see how it works. Unfortunately those days are gone for us, and we will never totally get them back