Orrente, Pedro; Moses and the Burning Bush; National Trust, Kingston Lacy; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/moses-and-the-burning-bush-100550 I recently took our second child to college and was covered in memories from my own time in school. It was a time of discovering the deep solitude that can be filled with the first true friendship with God; discovering "the other," "Thou,"… Continue reading How have I spent, and with what fruit, so wide a tract of days?
What each man honours before all else, what before all things he admires and loves . . . this for him is God. - Origen of Alexandria, 185—254 AD In our congregation, some of us lost a good friend a few years ago - Warren Long MD. Warren had been a pioneering neurosurgeon, as well… Continue reading Time Away
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
The Carpenter's Nail 