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This is why there are times when the most instructive question to bring to the text is not “what does it say?” but “what am I looking for?” I suspect Jesus knew this when he said, “ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be […]
You have been walking the water’s edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, deeper, under a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. — Rumi People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on […]
Notice names. Perhaps your surname, family name, or a nickname you have been given or earned. The names of people and pets around you. Consider the names of places where you spend your time or routes you often travel. We map our lives by place names, by addresses, by locations that have labels attached to […]
Stay — Jan RichardsonA Blessing for Ascension Day I know how your mind rushes aheadtrying to fathom what could follow this.What will you do, where will you go, how will you live? You will want to outrun the grief.You will want to keep turning toward the horizon,watching for what was lost to come back,to return to you […]
For some reason, there was something painful for me about the idea of being loved completely apart from what I do or do not do. It’s perhaps all we really want in life, and yet the prospect of it, stung. I’m not even sure why. Maybe because it only highlighted how much being loved apart […]
