From Henri Nouwen:
Waiting with Patience
How do we wait for God? We wait with patience. But patience does not mean passivity. Waiting patiently is not like waiting for the bus to come, the rain to stop, or the sun to rise. It is an active waiting in which we live the present moment to the full [...]
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More on Waiting…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged faith, hope, jesus, love, patience, peace, Tom Petty, waiting on November 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Quote of the day…
Posted in Uncategorized on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This seems to be a recurring theme.
Waiting is essential to the spiritual life.
Why it’s good for me to just chill-out….
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anxiety, Control, faith, fraud, God, identity theft, jesus, money, salli mae, security, trust on November 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am by nature a worrier. Anxiety is something that is part of my physical make-up. It’s hereditary. It’s just there. I don’t like it and wish it would just go away.
But…
I’m learning some pretty cool things about my anxiety.
I don’t need medicine for it at this point. There was a [...]
The journey of the peacemaker…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged faith, God, hope, jesus, love, peace, rabbi, war on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I read this from Rabbi Albert M. Lewis, who is the Director of the Emeritus College at Aquinas, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and a weekly columnist for The Grand Rapids Press. He wrote this using all single syllable words. Its an old discipline of simplicity, but the content is far from simplistic.
What if [...]
Why I’m not voting….
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Election, faith, greed, hope, jesus, liars, love, McCain, money, Obama, power, president, Presidential election, Theocracy, thieves, Vote on November 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This may come across strong. If so, cool. Because I feel pretty strongly about it.
I’m not voting.
I don’t know either of these guys. Neither do you. (Sorry for the assumptions and judgments.)
We know what we hear…from the television and online and in-print. Seriously. Are you kidding me?
When you trust [...]
Too friggin’ funny….
Posted in Uncategorized on November 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My brother sent me this…very funny!!
Obama’s Loss Traced To Dave Everly
The Church, continued…
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
More mind-blowing perspective from Henri Nouwen:
Often we hear the remark that we have to live in the world without being of the world. But it may be more difficult to be in the Church without being of the Church. Being of the Church means being so preoccupied by and involved in the [...]
The Church, God’s People
Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As I continue to think through and formulate a new understanding and vision for what ‘church’ is it’s becoming very clear that it probably isn’t what we think or have come to love and or hate.
I’ve been reading some of Henri Nouwen’s thoughts about the Church. I love the way that man could think and [...]
From Henri Nouwen…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christianity, church, crusades, God, grace, oppression, pogroms, power struggles, world on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Henri Nouwen has this to say about the Church, as in the people, the Body of Christ….
Superabundant Grace
Over the centuries the Church has done enough to make any critical person want to leave it. Its history of violent crusades, pogroms, power struggles, oppression, excommunications, executions, manipulation of people and ideas, and constantly recurring divisions [...]
What is a family?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged faith, family, hope, love, together on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To me, a family is a group of people who are committed to each other, not just through blood or law, but through a willful choice.
Each individual in that family must choose to look from their place of hurt, from their soul, through tears of pain and joy, into the eyes of another til they [...]
