Meditation on manna from heaven and the last shall be first

Meditation from this week’s texts: grace in unexpected times and places — manna in the desert and overturning the social order when ‘the last shall be first’ The Last Shall Be First Love someone who doesn’t deserve it. — Wendell Berry Maybe God (or Goodness or Good Orderly Direction or Gift of Desperation) is in[…]

Meditations on walking toward freedom from bondage

What does it mean to walk for freedom? What freedoms do we have and which ones are being dismantled? How will we stand for freedom and resist oppression and injustice? And sometimes, when it is beyond our control, where do we experience the love and grace that holds us accountable, but also sets us free?[…]

Reflections on awake, arise: scriptures that call us to engagement

Meditations inspired by scriptures that call us to wake up, be alert, pay attention, be present and engaged. What does that spiritual practice look like in your life? Golden slumbers kiss your eyes Smiles awake you when you arise. — Thomas Dekker I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as if did before.[…]

Farewell to Dot Wood

Farewell to “Dot” Wood The family of Dorothy “Dot” Wood has given permission to share the news that, at the age of 89, just shy of her 90th birthday, “Dot” died on Saturday, Sept 9. Her husband Armand “Fred” Wood continues to reside at Mineral Springs. Some family was present when she died. “Dot” was[…]

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