Honoring The Past Without Idolizing It

If we value the past more than the present - if we perceive the best part of our lives as having come and gone - we run the risk of always trying to return to it rather than growing and living and being. [Click title to read more.]

You Are A Story You’ve Never Dreamed Of

God also knows all of our possibilities and strengths and what we have the capacity to do. More than we do, God has the vision of who exactly we are meant to be, what we might be like when we're everything He created us for. [Click title to read more.]

Prayer As An Attitude

Prayer is not just an act which one commits at a certain time and a certain place. It is a way of life and of being: an attitude. To "pray without ceasing" requires attention and mindfulness--it requires seeing people, or moments that are passing by, and to recognize them right then as meaningful to God whether or not you feel they are meaningful to you. [Click title to read more.]

Christmas Is A Beginning

Christians--instinctively, I think--tend to divide up our understanding of Jesus-as-baby versus Jesus-as-savior. The cosmic moment, the violent sacrifice, the grand and undying love: we save our contemplation of those things for Easter. But they started in the manger. [Click title to read more.]