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Second Week of Advent 2019
“John proclaimed the coming of a new reality which was already breaking in—the ‘Realm of Heaven.’ In John’s gospel, Jesus referred to it as “eternal life.” Paul called it ‘the New Creation,’ while John the Revelator saw it as the ‘New Earth.’”
First Week of Advent 2019
Joseph Campbell said it well: “You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.”
Advent 2019
“As I light this flame, I lay myself before Thee.” (Ancient Celtic Prayer)
A Meditation on Thanksgiving
For all these I make an act of Thanksgiving this day. I pass before me the mainsprings of my heritage: The fruits of the labors of countless generations who lived before me, without whom my own life would have no meaning; The seers who saw visions and dreamed dreams; The prophets who sensed a truth greater than the mind could grasp and whose words could only find fulfillment in the years which they would never see; The workers whose sweat has watered the trees, the leaves of which are for the healing of the nations; …The restlessness which bottoms all I do with its stark insistence that I have never done my best, I have never reached for the highest; The big hope that never quite deserts me, that I and my kind will study war no more, that love and tenderness and all the inner graces of Almighty affection will cover the life of the children of God as the waters cover the sea. All these and more than mind can think and heart can feel, I make as my sacrament of Thanksgiving to Thee, Our Father, in humbleness of mind and simplicity of heart.
-From Meditations of the Heart by Howard Thurman
Eternal Autumn
“For the leaving of birds in formations to the south / And the expectation of new things to come…”
Broken, Gazing
Kingdomtide 2019
“Over the next several weeks, we will focus our contemplation, prayer, study, and actions through the lens of the Kingdom of God…”
Great article about El Paso in Rolling Stone: “The things that make El Paso so special, its very fabric, are the same reasons El Paso was attacked from the outside. He didn’t just go anywhere, he went to the most stalwart border city in America — no, the most stalwart city in America, period. He went to a city with a Latino majority and an Anglo minority.”
