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"By renouncing the failures of our past and announcing that we are changing, we commit ourselves to live humbly, justly, and kindly in the present and future."

"Krasivaya. I still hadn't found the word. Maybe I'd find it if I jumped ahead. I flipped through some of the pages. A marking caught my eye."

Psalms for PrayingNan C MerrillI once met a minister who would not allow his school age children to eat Lucky Charms cereal or read the Harry Potter series of books because the cereal was “magically delicious” and Harry Potter and friends were wizards and witches. My...

"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul."

"The distinction between seeing sin and seeing suffering is revelatory if we really let it seep into the deepest hollow of our hearts.  Jesus' default response to the fragile humanity before him is not contempt but compassion."

"As followers of Jesus, we are still called to live out the adventure of discipleship, become like Jesus through the power of his Spirit at work within us."

"My point is we do not need even to render 'yakem' as 'rage' but as a great emotion that could be 'excitement, or intense concentration.'"

"... the gospel of Jesus Christ announces that what God did for Jesus at Easter he will do not only for all those who are "in Christ" but also for the entire cosmos.  It will be an act of new creation, parallel to and derived from the act of new creation when God raised Jesus from the dead."

"If I had to give the most simple definition of a Christian, this is it;  simply one who is consciously drawing upon their Source."  Richard Rohr

"By renouncing the failures of our past and announcing that we are changing, we commit ourselves to live humbly, justly, and kindly in the present and future."

"Krasivaya. I still hadn't found the word. Maybe I'd find it if I jumped ahead. I flipped through some of the pages. A marking caught my eye."

Psalms for PrayingNan C MerrillI once met a minister who would not allow his school age children to eat Lucky Charms cereal or read the Harry Potter series of books because the cereal was “magically delicious” and Harry Potter and friends were wizards and witches. My...

"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul."

"The distinction between seeing sin and seeing suffering is revelatory if we really let it seep into the deepest hollow of our hearts.  Jesus' default response to the fragile humanity before him is not contempt but compassion."

"As followers of Jesus, we are still called to live out the adventure of discipleship, become like Jesus through the power of his Spirit at work within us."

"My point is we do not need even to render 'yakem' as 'rage' but as a great emotion that could be 'excitement, or intense concentration.'"

"... the gospel of Jesus Christ announces that what God did for Jesus at Easter he will do not only for all those who are "in Christ" but also for the entire cosmos.  It will be an act of new creation, parallel to and derived from the act of new creation when God raised Jesus from the dead."

"If I had to give the most simple definition of a Christian, this is it;  simply one who is consciously drawing upon their Source."  Richard Rohr

"Don't start thinking you can cross me.  You're lucky I put up with you as it is . . ."