
I Do Not Know You
“Perhaps we need to heed the plight of the Foolish Virgins, and adhere to a life of Spirit, living in Christ.”

“Perhaps we need to heed the plight of the Foolish Virgins, and adhere to a life of Spirit, living in Christ.”

“Despite Michel’s love for David, there is no indication from either the text or the tradition that David loved her.”

“The lesson of the death of Moses is that life does not stop because one life does.”

“He was, with God’s encouragement, giving up his primary role and was seeing something he had been involved with for most of his adult life moving on without him.”

“How I yearned for wise men and women who were willing to talk about their faith with friends and neighbors. Where were the folks who were mature in their relationship with God and willing to own that their daily prayer life was the deep nourishment of their lives?”

“Because identity is so critical for our lives—because it gives us the power to “do what needs to be done,” people grasp at a false sense of belonging, grasping for a sense of identity that empowers them and makes them feel safe. People go to “race” and nation in their quest for identity.”

“Precious child of God, you are not alone. You will always be caught. You will always have arms reaching out to you. You will always be embraced.”

“I claim that what Jesus taught was not political, although it clearly crossed the political lines of the day, as it does today. He was focused on a life of faith, of obedience, of love.”

The anonymous writer says that the kind of mocking we read about today is the one in which the mocker… “mocks others because he despises them for not having succeeded as he did in the acquisition of wealth and honor. He despises the poor, not in that he imputes any imprecations to them, but in that they are despicable in his eyes.”

” wends its way through the whole Bible, and Biblical passages and stories have frequently been turned into compositions for both liturgical and concert use.”