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We don’t always get answers, but we get his presence
I get a weekly communication from Renovare and the letter this week from Brian Morykon was deeply moving. I couldn’t find an online version to link to, so I am just cutting and pasting, hoping I’m not violating any copyright laws in the process.
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The healing place of Christmas
Peter Wehner’s piece for Christmas is beautiful. Jesus came through a family full of brokenness and dysfunction. That is significant for each of us and will hopefully move us past the perfect postcard pictures we’re flooded with in this season.
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Quick thoughts for the weekend
Random thoughts that entered my mind this week: We honor the prophets… after we have killed them. I want to stop saying why something “won’t work” and start saying, “LET’S TRY.”
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Advent Approaches
This is what I love about the liturgical calendar: It won’t match up to the American civil religion calendar. The first Sunday of Advent is the new year in the Church.
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Repairing the world
The God in whom we believe is the creator of the world, and he will one day put this world to rights… That solid belief is the bedrock of all Christian faith. God is not going to abolish the universe of space, time, and matter; he is going to renew it, to restore it, to fill it with new joy…
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Facing the apocalypse
Anxiety is up. Frustration is high. Anger boils over. AI will take over the world. “I, Robot” was right all along.
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Sweet reminders
It is 9/11. It’s been 23 years. But I saw this video shared this morning that brings a sweet reminder. When we quit focusing on ripping each other apart, something special can happen.
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Hopefulness is not a neutral position
Begin at 20:00 if it doesn’t start there automatically. It is a beautiful response to the question of hope.
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In an age of despair… don’t
“We live in an age of despair, and those who despair would seem justified, considering the compounding crises we face, whether they be economic, viral, political, or environmental. Yet despair, my father used to remind me, is forbidden; to despair is to deny that God is present, with us, caring for us, and that there is no challenge we are…
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This is the day I look for
I am always glad the daily office readings end in Revelation as the New Testament reading. It makes me homesick every time. There will be a time when war will be no more. A time when heaven and earth are truly joined together. A time when our King will finally be known in fullness to all and what we know…
Tag: Hope
