Speaking to the Soul: Saved at Sea
Paul’s traveling companions are thankful today that Paul got something wrong.
Paul’s traveling companions are thankful today that Paul got something wrong.

prayer helps me find my courage and step back into the world, unchanged in all but the most essential ways.
The prophet proclaims a God who is available to us even when we experience betrayal on every level of trust. This God offers us the justice and love that our courts, governments, and even intimate partnerships fail to deliver.

There is a border area between our imagination and the way things really are.

Paul was depending on justice, just as most of the people in our prisons are depending on justice, yet many are not getting it. Their color, their race, their orientation, even the nature of their crime, puts them in a hierarchy that is more like Dante’s seven circles of hell than it is a Pilgrim’s progress toward redemption.
The success of the Word of God depends on the quality of hearts that receive it.

Really knowing that God loves one makes a huge difference in one’s life. It doesn’t take away mental illness, and it doesn’t all by itself end debilitating isolation (though having a sensitive and aware faith community can help with that), but it unites a soul with its true purpose.
Is Jesus “the One”? Does our answer to this question help us to spread good news, or stand in the way of the kingdom?

by Maria Evans Feast Day of Francis of Assisi Psalm 148:7-14 Jeremiah 22:13-16 Galatians 6:14-18 Matthew 11:25-30 As much as any of
There are some types of vision loss that we don’t even notice, until it’s too late.