Today is Valentine’s Day, and I wish all of you a day filled with live-giving, healing, transformational love. Let none of us be satisfied by the saccharine over-sweetness of infatuation or the self-serving pungeance of lust; let us only be satisfied by unconditional, pure, and abiding love.
I profess the…
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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilde
As Thanksgiving approaches, I am mindful of all that I am grateful for. As I ask myself who and what my treasures are, I see the faces of loved…
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“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth”
—Dumbledore, in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
“Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say,…
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Douglas V. Steere
Forgiveness is a condition in which the sin of the past is not altered or its inevitable consequences changed. Rather, in forgiveness a fresh act is added to those of the past, which restores the broken relationship and opens the way for th eone who…
Read More →A scripture reading: Isaiah 61:1-3 (NRSV).
The spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
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because the Lord has anointed me;
he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed,
to bind up the broken-hearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and release to the prisoners;
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s…
From the Mystic Odes of Rumi:
Our death is our wedding with eternity
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What is the secret? “God is One.”
The sunlight splits when entering the windows of the house.
This multiplicity exists in the cluster of grapes;
It is not in the juice made from the grapes.
For he who is living in the…
Today is Valentine’s Day, and I wish all of you a day filled with live-giving, healing, transformational love. Let none of us be satisfied by the saccharine over-sweetness of infatuation or the self-serving pungeance of lust; let us only be satisfied by unconditional, pure, and abiding love.
I profess the…
Read More →
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilde
As Thanksgiving approaches, I am mindful of all that I am grateful for. As I ask myself who and what my treasures are, I see the faces of loved…
Read More →“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth”
—Dumbledore, in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
“Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say,…
Read More →A Fresh Act
Douglas V. Steere
Forgiveness is a condition in which the sin of the past is not altered or its inevitable consequences changed. Rather, in forgiveness a fresh act is added to those of the past, which restores the broken relationship and opens the way for th eone who…
Read More →A scripture reading: Isaiah 61:1-3 (NRSV).
The spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
Read More →
because the Lord has anointed me;
he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed,
to bind up the broken-hearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and release to the prisoners;
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s…
From the Mystic Odes of Rumi:
Our death is our wedding with eternity
Read More →
What is the secret? “God is One.”
The sunlight splits when entering the windows of the house.
This multiplicity exists in the cluster of grapes;
It is not in the juice made from the grapes.
For he who is living in the…