Forever But Not For Keeps
August 15, 2018
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“The stories of Hannah and of Mary, reminds me that our children are not ours—they are lent to us for a season. They are our children forever, but not for keeps.”
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Category: Speaking to the Soul
Mindfulness
August 14, 2018
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“But sometimes, perhaps, we need to have a reason to slow down. To not do all the things. But rather to do one thing. To focus. To pay attention. To turn ourselves to one thing at a time.”
How Jeremy Taylor Kept His Head, The Spirit, and the Prayer Book
August 13, 2018
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“Everybody wants to believe they are in the light. Everybody wants to believe they (alone) hear the Spirit. And everybody seems to forget that all that comes from above, not from the world of flesh, our world, our incarnate political world. A deafening world drowning out the Spirit.”
Absalom the Just
August 12, 2018
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“Revenge is not justice. If Absalom had eaten of the bread of love, there might have been some justice for Tamar. But, he ate of the bread of fear and of violence…”
Clare and Francis, Special Friends
August 11, 2018
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“They didn’t have Jesus to go to in the flesh as the disciples did, but yet Francis and Claire both seem to catch on to Jesus’s message far more easily. With them, it was a partnership with God, a meeting of the minds, the joining of the hearts, and a gift to all the generations to come after them.”
The People
August 10, 2018
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“The people, by their presence in the stories, also serve to remind the readers that the ‘named’ characters weren’t the only actors in the unfolding drama of the relationship between God and humanity.”
Come and See
August 9, 2018
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“After awhile, my imagining of God gave way to envisioning Christ”
Bread of Life: I am
August 8, 2018
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“I am the bread of life, Jesus said. I am.”
Loving the Children
August 7, 2018
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“They have people who want them to know God loves them. They have people who pray for them.”
Transfiguration and the Word
August 6, 2018
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“The transfiguration is a pivotal miracle. Jesus the man, up the mountain with his disciples and friends, is seen in his Glory as a creature of pure energy, of Light, a blinding reflection of God his Father. That is the glory that we aspire to when we pray, follow, obey, confess, and live out our mortal lives, filled with the immortal Spirit of God, Spirit of Christ, and the promise of Life in Light, immortal in His presence, in his Love.”
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