Jet fuel, candle wax, Bilbo Baggins and Pentecost
What, exactly, is the Spirit here to do? To help us cope with this crazy life? Or, help us live to prevent life from becoming crazy?
For Eastertide
“If you are searching for God, then you have found him.” -Blaise Pascal
Begins a beginning
There was a day, long ago, when the taste of dying flesh was insufficiently gratifying to a Middle Eastern tomb.
Then in Light of Now in Hope of Then
Jesus reinterpreted the glorious past of God’s people in light of grace and in hope of glory.
Hymning Verses Hiding: Finding Courage in the Ancient
“…upon seeing the face of God through sandstone walls …
Finding the God of hide and seek
“Reunited and it feels so good…”
Give me (I)s to see
El-roi, the God who sees, brings our renewal by means of others. They provide our clearest vision of who we really are.
Chasing What Can’t Be Caught
We chase after our own need to stop the chase!…The Spirit subtlely nourishes our desert-spirits in sacred pursuit, a subversive subterfuge of sweet serenity.