In a world where all of our material goods are disposable, replaceable, and valued in dollars, the brilliant surrender of the world to winter - a transformation of color whose beauty exceeds any practical purpose - is a valuable gift that tells us a lot about the Creator, His delights, and His nature. [Click title to read more.]
Category: spirituality
Commodifying God
For lo, according to the gospel of the dollar, our souls are redeemed by our accessories. [Click title to read more.]
Stop Making Failure Easy
One of the best things we can do is to get out of our own way. [Click title to read more.]
Five Strategies To Stop “Learning Loss” In The Church
Rather than learn or study or interact with the word of God on our own, we're often depending on relationships to do it for us. While that's a fine practice, it's becoming a struggle for people to engage with God outside of a relational context, on an individual level. And that's a problem. [Click title to read more.]
The Complex Nature of Gratitude
Gratitude, as I see it, is about accepting whatever we are given - good, bad, and ugly - with the joy that comes of understanding of God's true nature. [Click title to read more.]
What Remains
It is the great gift of the Spirit that to the insignificant, significance was given. That to us with our vaporous lifespans, whose greatest works of human engineering, technology, and intelligence will inevitably collapse and fade, the chance to create an eternal and enduring legacy was given. [Click title to read more.]
Spiritual Growth Is Not Instant Gratification
Our spiritual "exercise" - our study, our prayers, our time with God - yields results in unexpected ways, at unexpected times, and not always on our schedule. [Click title to read more.]
Maintenance Prevents Decay
A few shared experiences and some good feelings aren't enough to keep a friendship, or any kind of relationship, going through neglect and disinterest. [Click title to read more.]
We Mustn’t Mistake Money For Love
It's good to examine our giving and make sure that the act of writing a check isn't a way to shirk the emotional (and sometimes physical!) labor involved in care. [Click title to read more.]
Holy Hedges
We can become consumed with hedges, and with being protected. But sometimes that's not what's best for us. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 