Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
And Jesus just sort of floated away…kind of like Mary Poppins. — Nadia Bolz-Weber When ancient Hebrew writers talk about geographic locations and spatial relationships in the physical world, they often use these physical descriptions to represent a higher, transcendent reality. For example, death and emptiness are down or under in Sheol. And because God[…]
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. – Frederick Buechner I talk to God but the sky is empty. ― Sylvia Plath I think the trouble with me is lack of faith… often when I pray I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address.[…]
… give them to all the people who helped mother our children. … I don’t want something special. I want something beautifully plain. Like everything else, it can fill me only if it is ordinary and available to all. — Anne Lamott Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.[…]
Lately it seems there are mysteries everywhere, as if you’ve only just opened your eyes. ― Stewart O’Nan What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. … In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game.[…]
The people of this world are like the three butterflies in front of a candle’s flame. The first one went closer and said:I know about love. The second one touched the flame lightly with his wings and said:I know how love’s fire can burn. The third one threw himself intothe heart of the flame and was consumed. He alone[…]
