Time capsules are intriguing. Your elementary school teacher encourages you to round up some receipts, a few movie tickets, maybe a back-of-the-envelope journal entry with your favorite candy bar or song written on it, along with a note of encouragement to your future self, and then you and your classmates shove all these notions into a box or a tube and bury it. Kickball, the old standby, would probably have been a more thrilling recess […]
A major theme of A Course of Love is wholeheartedness- the state wherein the heart and mind are unified. This concept is returned to many times, but like any word, it is just a symbol on a sheet of paper until it somehow becomes our lived reality. (That somehow would be a miracle…) Jesus speaks about this movement to wholeheartedness as being the first and principal unification that is required, within ourselves, in order to […]
At dusk, a colorwheel sky. It is yellow-green to the west. Overhead, a dimming into blue. The day’s earlier torrent of photons has reduced to a trickle. The last of them bounce through the atmosphere and, without any pressure behind them, scatter. Far away, the spigot has been shut– eclipsed by the rim of a spinning world. One by one, they are absorbed. Heeded. Listened to, like sacred whispers. In some cases, become flesh. The […]
Embracing Forever 