Category: Speaking to the Soul

“Jesus can make the blind see, but he can’t make the disciples understand.”

“Jesus’s duty and ministry were to save people, not condemn them. That’s not to say that he didn’t give us some idea of who might or would be condemned by God at some point, but only (at that time, anyway,) that he was not the designated one to do that. That was God’s providence entirely.”

“I carried the weight of what I thought other people thought about me for years. I don’t know at what moment I realized that I didn’t have to carry the weight of the (mostly imaginary) expectations of others any more. Once I did it was a revelation.”

“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.”

“Three times Paul begs God to remove his limitation, and three times he is told, No. No, for my grace is sufficient. No, because if I remove this thorn, you will not need to rely upon me. No, for without gravity to keep your feet on the ground you will start to imagine you can fly on your own. No, because I am the Lord and you are not.”

“In the beginning – God whispering to us you are mine and you are loved”

“The gracious welcome I received when I finally heard the call to begin again, from the ground up was a blessing, a gift. I didn’t seek it, and in fact tried to duck it.”

“Jesus asked, ‘Who do you say that I am?’ Jesus had been traveling around healing blindness, but he seemed unable to make the disciples see.”