It is a terribly clichéd Christian statement, touted out as a quick and easy response to human suffering, or sometimes as a humorous barb at someone who is being too melodramatic about their difficulties. And yet… Continue reading
Don’t we love proof-texting our position? Hey, I’m willing to follow, but as long as it is according to my liberated understanding and doesn’t ask me to let go of my precious beliefs, aspirations, and righteousness. He’s on my side anyway. Continue reading
Simplicity as an expression of my love for God is good. But it’s good because that simplicity in my own life frees me to be an extravagant giver of all the good I have to God’s good world. Continue reading
May we recognise that the gifts of our lives are all gifts of love—the gifts we have received, and those that we give. May we live into the reality that we love because God first loved us (1 Jn 4.19). Continue reading
What is the ultimate goal of our lives? What are we called to pursue beyond all else? Or, to ask it another way, does Jesus want us to be happy? Continue reading
Jesus condones the behavior of the wasteful love and devotion shown to him while suggesting “you always have the poor with you.” It would be preposterous to suggest Jesus did not care about the poor, but I think he is inviting us to a deeper reality, a deeper understanding. To say “may thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” is not about our righteous and pious acts, but about God’s holy acts performed through us. Continue reading
Mentoring is a humbling road, but it’s a worthwhile road. And it’s a road we’ll not be on alone; for these experiences will take place within the context of Christian community, of prayer. God will be with us every step of the way; I trust in God’s direction to guide the process wherever it’s meant to go. Continue reading
These cultural narratives touch me and worry me. I count my two children as the greatest blessings of my life. I desperately want to raise them to know generous and unconditional and ever-present love. I worry that I work too much, that I’m distracted too often, that I get too caught up in the busyness of life and responsibilities and that I am failing them as their mother. I am a guilty working mother. Continue reading
Obedience is the straight path, the road to freeing the imprisoned will from the Pharaoh of ME. Trying times for our Church, but luckily for us, the one we are called to be obedient to has given up everything to welcome you home, your hope, your dream, his yoke is easy and his burden light, and his welcome does not exclude anyone, not even me. Continue reading
Community is a funny thing. Many of us hold it as an important value in our faith “communities” and our lives. Interestingly, the very idea that we need to hold it as a value may indicate something particular about life in our context. Continue reading
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