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Category: Speaking to the Soul

Shout from the Rooftop

August 25, 2018 No Comments

“The kingdom of God isn’t a goal to be achieved once I take my last breath. It’s something that is as close as my next breath and as available as God’s grace.”

“Job’s friends were able to be still and silent with him and for him. His suffering was so great and inflicted on him in a way that no mere human could control that their presence was the only gift they could offer their friend.”

Compassion

August 23, 2018 No Comments

“It’s as if really seeing Jesus in his totality is all that is necessary to usher in the Kingdom of Heaven.”

Letting Story Shape You

August 22, 2018 No Comments

“We need to listen to certain stories again and again, whether those from our religious traditions, from our cultural traditions (oral traditions or folk tales), or even from the corpus of Shakespeare or Toni Morrison or Star Wars, if preferred. We need to pick a tradition we admire, and then let it work through us. Story is somehow essential, somehow part of the warp and weft of the universe, part of our God-nature.”

A Prayer for the Beginning of School

August 21, 2018 2 Comments

“Open the hearts of our children to love learning. May their eyes sparkle in wonder. May their hands create beauty. May their minds be open to possibility. May their curiosity be piqued. May they see your hands guiding them.”

A Good Death

August 20, 2018 No Comments

“Each of these sins – loss of faith, loss of hope, loss of patience, loss of humility (pride), and loss of serenity (avarice) – are pitfalls in our living, as well as our dying.”

Betrayal

August 19, 2018 No Comments

“Justice on our own terms isn’t justice at all, it’s just revenge. Justice has it’s beginning and its ending in the bread of love.”

Love and Betrayal

August 18, 2018 No Comments

“Love and friendship have always been components of stories of triumph and tragedy.”

Just Can’t Let It Go

August 17, 2018 No Comments

“In today’s reading, we catch Samson at the height of his impetuous, vindictive behavior.”

Living Water

August 16, 2018 No Comments

“The discipline of prayer will not seem to meet the yearning of the heart in the same way that falling in love seems to. But over time the one praying will learn that it is the more true, more satisfying answer.”