Voices at the cross – What would you say?
I can be quiet in a crowd. When talkers are ramping high, my introverted side kicks in and I just listen. I slip into the silent gap with ease. But…
Read moreI can be quiet in a crowd. When talkers are ramping high, my introverted side kicks in and I just listen. I slip into the silent gap with ease. But…
Read moreSometimes I’d read Michelle’s words in her memoir Spiritual Misfit and think, “We are just alike!” We’d have been the two competing over bonus points for valedictorian of our class.…
Read moreMonday, April 14, begins week 13—and the last week—of memorizing Isaiah 55. This week’s verse (April 14-April 20): Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the…
Read more“To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in. The poet only asks to get…
Read moreGood songs in us help. When we’re going through a hard time, or even a good time, we use songs to help express what we’re thinking and feeling. But we…
Read more“We would rather push suffering away and pretend that the ubiquitous grief of the world has nothing to do with us, but if we do that we will remain confined…
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