Jalaluddin Rumi – Jackson Community Church

Meditations on tangible love during Advent 4: holy, messy, stubborn love that moves among us here on earth.

I believe God loves the world through us—through you and me. — Mother Teresa The three grand essentials of happiness are: Something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.― George Washington Burnap The great struggle of … life is to take God’s name for us, to believe we are beloved and to […]

Reflections on covenants made with love, themes from 1 Corinthians 13.

This week we celebrate the renewal of Ray & Arden’s Wedding Vows during the year of their 60th anniversary: such vows are bound as a covenant made in the sight and presence of holy love (agape). This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace,To seek the truth in love, And to help one […]

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 Independence and Bondage for July 4th Weekend

Reflections as we approach July 4th weekend: who is free, who is not free? Themes of spiritual freedom versus civic freedom … pondering Abraham’s obedience to Yahweh, willingness to sacrifice a child, the merciful intervention that freed him from such an act. What is asked of us? What is offered to us? My father always […]