“The unique gifts of the heart we each can offer – the little things, like shiny pebbles from the beach – sometimes become bus tickets back to the world of worthiness from the bleak realm of despair.”
“…his Gospel is the one that introduces us to Elizabeth and Zechariah, gives us the Magnificat and the Bethlehem birth narrative, and shares the prophesies of Simeon and Anna.”
“It’s a lovely synchronicity that Philip’s Feast Day falls on National Coming Out Day, an annual observance established thirty years ago by The Human Rights Campaign.”
“Holy God, spark of Creation and fire of Love, you who created the cosmos, who shaped every living thing uniquely in your image, we have sinned most grievously against you.”
“Jesus is calling his community to go beyond their understanding of themselves, of him, and of God. He wants them to do this for the good of the world.”
“There’s something very magical about the liminal times of day – dawn and twilight. They are not quite one thing or the other, neither day or night.”
John 1:17-29 Today’s segment of the story of the raising of Lazarus is an exchange between Jesus and Martha. “If you had been here
“We can miss the most astonishing miracles simply because we don’t know how to think about them.”
“As [Jesus] teaches in the temple, people are recognizing him as something special – guessing that he might be the Messiah. This is very threatening to those in power. Not only does it challenge their authority, it forces them to look at who they are, what choices they have made to get where they are, and what they have sacrificed along the way.”
“It’s as if really seeing Jesus in his totality is all that is necessary to usher in the Kingdom of Heaven.”