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Spring
So. I have been thinking about the change of seasons. I don’t want to miss spring this year. I want to distinguish the last winter frost from the out-of-season one, the frost of…
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Two Ways of Reading
…I believe that most people who read the Bible as Scripture do so in one of two ways: compliantly or conversantly… …Compliant readers are individuals whose basic instinct is to read the Bible…
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Food for Thought: Restraint
These words from Gandhi were quoted in Quiet: I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that…
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Marvelous luggage
Whether you are sick or well, lovely or irregular, there comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, “Here…
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Bursting with God-news
Upon entering, Gabriel greeted her: “Good morning! You’re beautiful with God’s beauty, Beautiful inside and out! God be with you.” (Luke 1:28, The Message) This afternoon I heard the song “Breath of Heaven”…
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Recent reading: “the encroachment of the buzz”
I read this the other day in The Lost Art of Reading by David L. Ulin. I wonder if anyone else relates. This, I think, is something on which we can agree: to…
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Quiet he lies
Our pastor has been taking a close look at what some of our traditional Christmas carols have to teach us. It’s making this richest of seasons even richer. Yesterday while teaching on “Hark…
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As little children
A few weeks ago, we finished Egermeier’s Bible Storybook. It ends with a description of John on Patmos, writing Revelation. It doesn’t summarize Revelation — just tells the story of its writing. My…
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Living the questions
I love this quote from Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet: …Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves… Do not… seek the answers,…
