Tag Archives: love

Keep Talking about How Your Lover Is Doing with Jesus

Posted on April 16, 2012 by

The biggest impediment to keeping faith with Jesus might be a good man or a good woman, or at least a man or a woman who wants me. I have often wondered out loud how long it would be before … Continue reading →

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The Goodness and Danger of Whitney Houston

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

Of course I want to talk about Whitney Houston. Doesn’t everyone who ever saw her sing the national anthem like-a-celebrity-is-supposed-to-sing-it want to talk about her today? [propaganda here] I don’t know what song is going through your mind, but I can’t … Continue reading →

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Exodus 15 — a Little Wisdom for God to Amplify

Posted on March 21, 2011 by

We had a couple of perennial questions arise at our cell last week. We were reading Exodus 15, which is a great paean to victory. God intervenes on behalf of the escaping Israelites and drowns Pharaoh’s army in the sea … Continue reading →

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My Week of Seeing Jesus in the Morsels

Posted on February 21, 2011 by

Lent is coming soon and it will inspire a good fast. That’s good, because I could use one. But until then, I think I am determined to receive whatever I am served at whatever table I am seated to see … Continue reading →

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Bearing the Beams of Love in 2011

Posted on January 3, 2011 by

And we are put on earth a little space That we might learn to bear the beams of love. William Blake “I think William Blake was right about the purpose of humanity; we are here to learn to bear the … Continue reading →

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It’s a Depression

Posted on July 1, 2010 by

The story goes that one of the young brothers among the desert monks went to an elder and asked, “Would it be right if I kept a little money in my possession, in case I should get sick?”             The … Continue reading →

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Prayer for Recognition

Posted on March 22, 2010 by

The atmosphere pulses with your glory. We praise you for the moments, The moments we awake and breathe in newness. The whole world feels spring rushing up. We praise you for the daffodils, The flowers that bloom with snowless joy. … Continue reading →

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Keeping the Covenant Real

Posted on January 6, 2010 by

Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Ephesians 5:21 Paul writes the sentence above to exhort the Ephesians to a new way of relating. He immediately proceeds to exhort husbands and wives, in particular, to relate in that … Continue reading →

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Intimacity

Posted on November 30, 2009 by

I would like to hear what you think about my new word: intimacity. (Actually, the word is googlable, but they usually mean intimacy.) I am working with it this way: intimacity is our capacity for being intimate. During the Advent … Continue reading →

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In Honor of White Corpuscles

Posted on October 19, 2009 by

A few weeks ago a thoughtful friend told me about a revelation he had. It seems that he had translated certain cultural instincts from his childhood into the church, unwittingly. He was getting some wit about that. (Gimme a church … Continue reading →

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