Last year I got an ebook edition of Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals (edited by Shane Claiborne and others). I skipped around in it, read some and was impressed and pleased. This year I decided to read the office … Continue reading
This past Sunday my wife shared with me a thought she found on the http://www.d365.org/todaysdevotion/ website and I would like to share it with you this morning, It’s not what someone does for us that matters most; it’s the very … Continue reading
Another year “begins” for us. Let me share two thoughts today. First a short quote, “Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.” … Continue reading
On this Christmas Day, please let me simply share a prayer I found several years ago — Loving Father, Help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of angels, the gladness of the shepherds, … Continue reading
A few months ago Plough Publishing restarted emailing a daily thought they call “Daily Dig.” As you might expect Advent and Christmas has been the theme for the last several weeks. Below is a recent posting that captured my attention … Continue reading
Sunday morning I was looking over the Advent and Christmas songs in a hymnal (Celebrating Grace) and came across these lines in a litany – The time has come! God’s church relives the drama of the story we inhabit. … Continue reading
A few weeks ago I saw a note on Englewood Review of Books regarding the recently published A Prayer Journal by Flannery 0’Connor. This got me thinking about the practice of some of writing prayers but when I read the following … Continue reading
I receive David Lose’s blog posts in email (and find so much in his writing worth reading) and last week a post came that seems just right for today. I was already a fan of e. e. cummings and this … Continue reading
The past several weeks we have been thinking about the balance between the passive and the active in our lives. With that lens in mind I invite you to spend time meditating on Psalm 23. When I recently came to … Continue reading
As I have continued to think about passivity (and activity) in our Christian walk and practices, I remembered some words of Dallas Willard I shared many months ago on “abstinence and engagement.” He identifies the disciplines of abstinence as solitude, … Continue reading
