Helen Keller with two-year-old Donald Hart Not in vain do angels of God ascend and descend unto the Son of Man, beheld of eyes that have been enlightened with the light of knowledge. In the very season of prayer, accordingly, being reminded by the suppliant of his needs, they satisfy them as they have ability… Continue reading Origen of Alexandria – Prayer – mystery of call and response
HUMILITY IS OFTEN confused with the gentlemanly self-deprecation of saying you're not much of a bridge player when you know perfectly well you are. Conscious or otherwise, this kind of humility is a form of gamesmanship. If you really aren't much of a bridge player, you're apt to be rather proud of yourself for admitting it so… Continue reading Humility – Frederick Buechner
Take not the seat of the scorner, nor give yourselves up to a mere curiosity in religion. Go not where Christ is preached, to laugh and be amused. Go not to hear, day after day, truths of unutterable solemnity, only that you may know how various are the modes in which that may be said,… Continue reading wise words from the past
Who is the third who walks always beside you?When I count, there are only you and I togetherBut when I look ahead up the white roadThere is always another one walking beside youGliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hoodedI do not know whether a man or a woman—But who is that on the other side… Continue reading Eliot’s “Wasteland” – Who is my 3rd?
Where We Started THE STORY OF CHRIST is where we all started from, though we've come so far since then that there are times when you'd hardly know it to listen to us and when we hardly know it ourselves. The story of Christ is what once, somehow and somewhere, we came to Christ through.… Continue reading Where We Started – Buechner
The Carpenter's Nail 