Sermon: Abundance
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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 […]
Meditation on Strangers & Bread: Road and Table with the Unknown
Whom Aren’t You Noticing? Who or what has the capacity to break you open? More Blues and the Abstract Truth (excerpt) — C. D. Wright … Well. Then. You say Grandmother let me just ask you this: How does a body rise up again and rinse her mouth from the tap. And how does a […]
Meditations: Sweetness at a cost: syrup from sap, dates from palms, peace from spiritual & political leaders
Date Palm Trinity (excerpt) — Khaled Mattawa … Those were my brothers who cowered beneath the date palm to gather handfuls of fruit, rubbing each date clean on their sleeves, chewing softly to savor the taste as though it were a good omen, and rising to resume their lives, on their faces the smiles of […]