“Whether it be a lakeside retreat or the journey of life,our expectations are our greatest obstacle to unionwith God in the present moment. It is Jesus who writes all the lines, all the words,and all the letters of our lives.” Brennan Manning, The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus Our expectation for the holiday season often gets…
Connecting today’s art experience with our spiritual journey! My grandson, just 4, asked me to help him draw a ninja – not just any ninja – but the “green” ninja from Ninjago. I’m not skilled at drawing true likenesses, and I was pretty sure my lame attempts were not going to please my exacting little…
God likes me! Thinking about that phrase today, and was reminded of this passage from a favorite author … To believe means to realize not just with the head but also with the heart that God loves me in a creative, intimate, unique, reliable, and tender way. Creative: out of His love I came forth;…
Peterson says in Leap Over a Wall, “Pain entered into, accepted, and owned can become poetry. It’s no less pain, but it’s no longer ugly. Poetry is our most personal use of words; it’s our way of entering experience, not just watching it happen to us, and inhabiting it as our home.” Frustration, sadness …