We don’t get to choose. We don’t have any input on the subject. Our opinion doesn’t matter. When it comes to where and when you are born, it’s all up to God. Many times I have passed a homeless person and said “for the grace of God go I”. Many times as I talk with…
Yes, God loves us unquestionably and effusively. Paul even says in Romans 8 that nothing… and he clarifies… not a single thing of heaven, hell, or earth can keep us from Gods love. Do we truly believe that or like a lot of scripture do we chose to overlook it if it doesn’t fit our…
Happy Jesus Day! Standing In AWE! I stood in AWE! I stood with wonderment and tears, beholding Gods’ mighty hand. Standing at the foot of a four hundred foot waterfall, the power is overwhelming. Then my eyes turn to the Mendenhall Glacier. Ice that is thousands of years old, in a valley that was shaped…
There are nights it gets to be to much. The tears come and prayers stream from my heart. I see something… I here stories that remind me of the pain so many go through. The hatred. The judgement. The humiliation. Why do people with different backgrounds… those of color…. those that are born with different…
“It’s easier for a camel to go thru the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom.” Is that speaking of money? Is that speaking of those that seek material riches? Could Jesus have been talking of power? Of religious elite? Was he talking about those that think their rich…
It chases us without hasten. We try daily to forget it, but it is always there. No matter who you are in the world it still beckons and stays in the back of your mind. You can dismiss it on most days, but then worldly events or a doctors diagnoses reminds us of it. Death…
Why did Jesus make the religious establishment mad? Why were they scared of him to the point they had him murdered? Simple! He dined with prostitutes, tax collectors, and detested street people. They hated him because he widened the embrace of God. It was his expanding love and acceptance they hated because they believed God…
So many people look for happiness in the wrong places. I have come to an understanding in my everyday life that everything we experience transcends our being. We must come to know that, through art – music – love – sex – nature – relationships, there is God beyond the thing. We have to understand…
In Exodus 14 Moses told the Israelites at the Red Sea “you have to do nothing but keep still. Yahweh will do the fighting for you”. So many times we think we must instruct by words when in fact our deeds and lifestyle is so much more of a teaching tool. A quiet allowing is…
If we come to God by being perfect, no one is going to come to God. Our failures open our hearts of stone and move our rigid mind space toward understanding and patience. —Richard Rohr We tend, as humans, to lean toward rules and laws when it comes to God, and Christ. We like to…