Stories that Bridge Heart and Heaven
The Holy Spirit Embodies Goodness Knows What The Holy Spirit in the Christian faith is sometimes difficult to wrap one’s head around. There are those with a firm view of Continue Reading →
The doctor look’s up from his computer monitor. My eyes lock on his face but nothing in his expression tells me whether the prognosis of my mother’s chest X-ray will Continue Reading →
Rocking Hinge What Easter message will the doctor deliver? (refer: On Joyful Sorrow) I sit with my eighty-eight-year-old mother in the doctor’s office waiting for the verdict. Her first chest Continue Reading →
Joyful Embrace What a relief when Lent is over and Easter arrives. After the ardour of a long and trying Lent, we fall joyful into the arms of Easter. Love’s Continue Reading →
Seed Faith Unpack your kit and get started. Don’t worry you don’t have enough tools or all the right ones. Start the job. Whatever little you have is enough. “… Continue Reading →
Forty Days of Trials, Probation and Testing The number forty is significant throughout the bible. Biblical scholars suggest the number is not so much a signal of literal days or Continue Reading →
A Fragile Mantle Social media adds to the competing voices in our heads. There is so much and so many. Like heavy rainfall pounding a coat-less body one becomes deluged, Continue Reading →
Evil Nearby It doesn’t bear to think of evil’s influence nearby (Faith Unfurled Back Corner Evil: https://wp.me/p89n5f-cN). And I don’t know the murdered woman found in her basement apartment on Saturday. Reports Continue Reading →
Bad Stuff Happens It’s not something I give a lot of thought. A black and white subject with fundamentalist undertones sometimes delivered with fire and brimstone drama, the notion makes Continue Reading →
Dwight Thomas’ Harvest Thanksgiving homily (https://wp.me/p89n5f-bO) drilled down past thanksgiving reaching further to the anatomy of gratitude. He was unraveling a lie–the lie of self-sufficiency. Inherent in gratitude is the Continue Reading →