But I also need to remember that I must praise God, and to remember I have a responsibility to do what I can to help bring this chaos into a state that God would truly call a kingdom.
I’ve written before about the importance of imperfection. Lately I’ve been thinking about it more and more. Tonight I was watching a video on how
The rock foundation that is built in hearing and acting on the word of Christ is another one of Jesus’ upside down images. It is not some inner steel that keeps out the floods and wind. It is instead a profound vulnerability.
Even as we are plunged into a time of overwhelming sorrow, there is power in knowing that together we grieve, but then we can choose to honor those who have lost their lives by this time not turning back to our own concerns.
Losing a loved one changes us and forever alters how we live in the world. But in the midst of our grieving we do go on. We continue to live.
…it’s one thing to know intellectually and to speak God’s love for us. Yet, it’s entirely different and far more difficult to feel deep in our souls the completely unconditional love of God.
So, in this little allegory, Jesus has turned the question around on the Chief Priests and elders. They had hoped to undermine his authority, but instead, he undermined theirs!
I think Psalm 121 is a good one for us these days, since it’s a comforting song but it also offers hope. It tells us that God won’t let our feet be moved and that God will never slumber nor sleep.
When you imagine your own personification of an angel, what does he/she look like? How does that personification inform the actions of your faith?
All the people I meet, every day, are temples. It is our true nature to be receptacles of the living breath of God. The Holy Spirit roosts in each one of us, speaks the language of each one of us, shares the sorrows, terrors and joys of each one of us