Today has been sad and somber filled. There is a sadness hanging in the air, thick as the humidity of a mid-August day in the south.
A dear friend has begun another part of her journey as she passed this morning from her earthly life.
A childhood friend of my wife, she has been battling leukemia ...
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God's joy moves from unmarked box to unmarked box,
from cell to cell. As rainwater, down into flowerbed.
As roses up from the ground.
Now it looks like a plate of rice and fish,
now a cliff covered with vines,
now a horse being saddled.
It hides within these,
till one day it cracks them open.
-Rumi
It is hidden behind
the bright green eyes,
under ...
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Written on
December 18, 2009 by
Eric in
Faith
Image via WikipediaMany times throughout this journey, this adventure of life, I have felt deeply lost along the ...
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Written on
November 17, 2009 by
Eric in
Faith
Image by Lel4nd (busy) via Flickr
One need not tell god everything about the people for whom one prays. Holding them one by one steadily before the mind and ...
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the mirror
the mirror stands as a testament to
imperfectly reflect that which is real,
the surface reflects what we need to do
we see dimly, looking hard for his seal
behind the veil which separates the worlds
of here and now and of eternity
which, in part, we are shown by his heralds,
glimpses brief 'til called to see completely,
our journey ...
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Faith is not linear. It is, indeed, a widening of the imagination, a leap into the transcendent, a taste of the numinous, a vision of the extraordinary in the ordinary. And our coach for the leap, the glue in the link, is our Muse, the Spirit of God. ((Luci Shaw “The Partnership of Art and ...
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I was standing at the kitchen sink tonight as my wife, son, and daughter were just sitting down to dinner. I was overwhelmed. Overwhelmed with a love that can't be described and I just stood and thanked God for this wonderful, crazy, family that He has blessed me with. Like His grace, and undeserved, unearned ...
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Twitterer @KMWeiland of Wordplay fame tweeted this quote recently. Being that it is from one of my favorite authors I thought it worth posting.
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist. - Madeleine L'Engle
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...is something quite simple: one who loves the Lord with all of his heart, mind, and soul and loves his neighbor as himself AND lives his life that way.
How would you end that sentence? Go to Reflections of a Jazz Theologian and offer up your answer....
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This piece started out as just a part of Christine's (Godspace - see link below) Lenten synchroblog but ended up going a bit further when reading Marcus' post for this weeks RAP at HCB.
I thought that I was meditating on temptation while reflecting on Christ's temptation in the wilderness but it turned out I ...
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