“Only love is capable of genuine transformation. Willpower is inadequate. Even spiritual effort is not up to the task. If we are to become great lovers, we must return again and again to the great love of the Great Lover.” – David Benner in Sacred...
“Monarch chrysalis on butterflyweed” by Martin LaBar is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 We walk daily circles around the yard, stretching our legs amidst long hours spent working on screens. Frost arrived this weekend, impossibly...
A Purification by Wendell Berry At the start of spring I open a trench in the ground. I put into it the winter’s accumulation of paper, pages I do not want to read again, useless words, fragments, errors. And I put into it the contents of the outhouse: light of...
“I’m tempted to declare 2017, The Year of Failure.” This is what I messaged to a friend minutes after opening a long-awaited email informing me I was no longer in the running for a coveted job. My emotions were high; melodrama rose with ease. Looking back...
John 5:1-9 How long must you wait by the water’s edge for the angel to dip her fickle toe and stir the surface of the world? And what if even after days, months of waiting, watching, you sense the air’s movement, see the water shimmer with circle after concentric...
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