Category: Speaking to the Soul

We Are Immortal

Our rabbi eating that broiled fish with his disciples – it means that we, ourselves, are immortal beings.  Imagine that!  Death has no power over us.

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Something Strange, Something Familiar

Something strange is happening in this passage from the Gospel of Luke. We witness a brief flurry of activity before the silence and stillness of the sabbath descend in the aftermath of trauma. Perhaps we can learn something about coping with suffering from this faithful observance of the day of rest.

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Get Your Yoke On

The same traveling rabbi who offered a tender yoke to the down and out of his time makes the same offer to us today. If you’re tired of it all, if you somehow got yoked to a worrisome old dogma or doctrine, toss it off. That thing is not the yoke of Jesus. His yoke brings rest; it is an easy thing.

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Glimpses of God

Just maybe…now and again, we get our three minutes…or our 30 seconds or so…of the special lenses in which we can see God in a way we’ve never seen before.  If you could have that glimpse, how might it change you?

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Fireworks

We giggle to hear, behind us, a small child narrate the colours of the fireworks exploding overhead into flowers and fountains. He is rooting for the green ones.

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