Category: Speaking to the Soul

“Remember this peace from God
that falls on you
and follows you
wherever you go
…”

“[W]hy did Jesus take this boat trip? He seems to have come for this one man, naked, violent, abandoning normal life to live in the caves of the dead.”

“In the language of the Soul the symbol of a wedding banquet is a very big deal. It is the celebration of a change of consciousness — a union of elements that were once completely out of relationship or actively in conflict.”

“Could dreams be a way of passing the message of the Kingdom on? Dreams in the Bible were important and respected as such. Do we need to look to our own dreams to see what can be learned or possibly put into action?”

“In our Gospel reading today, Jesus talks about doing the will of the Father that sent him, rather than his own will.  Vida Dutton Scudder was a person who sought to understand that will during the entire 92 years of her life, even if that life led her into unpopular or unorthodox places, or change direction on how she was best called to follow Jesus.”

“Yes, here’s the good news: God calls everyone into God’s kingdom.
And here’s the bad news: God calls EVERYONE into God’s kingdom.”

I stood in my cardigan and stole behind a small, low altar, clinging obstinately to that other creed, the science that says that outdoor air is more effective at interrupting the spread of a pandemic virus than indoor seating allows as we circulated Word and Sacrament.

“Please come and put your hands on {me} so that {I} will be healed and live.”

“Does this world, as it is now, make us more able to hate than hear? Fight than forgive? Believe liars and those who traffic in false witness rather than the Gospel of Christ?”

“So I have been allowing myself to bring my aggrieved heart to God in age-old questioning that comes straight from the inner kid. “Where are you?” I ask.”