THE LORD will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel. Liberating God, teach us how to refuse the evil and choose the good. Amen. – Alive Now (via Upper Room Daily Reflections) I’d like to wish everyone a…
Category: Meditation
Advent Video
For some Christmas is just another season, but for me this Advent has been a time where I found renewed focus on what’s important. Join me, if you’re still wandering …. (HT: Tracy Howe)
Our Need of God’s Coming
“As we draw near Christmas, the sense of our own need and of the whole world’s need of God’s coming–never greater perhaps than it is now–becomes more intense…. We seem to hear the voice of the whole suffering creation saying, ‘Come! Give us wisdom, give us light, deliver us, liberate us, lead us, teach us…
Active Waiting
ADVENT is an active waiting; we participate in the works of God within ourselves and within our world. While waiting for Advent, we give ourselves up to God’s use for goodness. – Marjorie Suchocki Child of the Light: Walking through Advent and Christmas (via Upper Room Daily Reflections) I’m a little too tired to blog…
Surviving without Oxygen
This is a breath of fresh air for a suffocating world of ungrace, cynicism, self-centredness, self-pity and plain old fashioned self-righteousness. OUCH! All of us get poked here! “ In his classic The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis urges the reader to ‘enjoy being unknown and regarded as nothing.’ What he means is the…
More of Grace
THIS YEAR NEEDS ADVENT Needs a keeping space Of silence and of darkness nearing down, Someplace where all that can be still is stilled And everything but hope and fear are gone, Where there is less of me and more of grace. There in the waiting moments you have willed Likes healing for an often-wounded…
Kingdom People
“I hope you’ve met at least one Kingdom person in your life. They are surrendered people. You sense that life is OK at their core. They have given control to Another and are at peace. A Kingdom person lives for what matters, for life in its deepest sense. There’s a kind of gentle absolutism about…
Interrupted by God
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions. We may pass them by, preoccupied with our more important tasks, as the priest passed by the man who had fallen among thieves, perhaps…
Nourished and Refreshed
“Once people feel nourished and refreshed, they cannot help but be kind; just so, the world aches for the generosity of a well-rested people.” – Wayne Muller (via Nourished and Refreshed) I’m surprised how I enjoyed waking up early today 🙂 Strange because I was reading about rising earlier only yesterday. Perhaps the subconscious…
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I stumbled on this song this afternoon … it’s been haunting me since. The prayer helps me articulate what I feel when I hear and see much that’s wrong with us – the world, the church, individual Christians, myself. For more go to Songs for a Revolution of Hope.