Oct 22, 2021 | discipleship, joy, nature
Which of you desires life, and covets many days to enjoy good? O taste and see that the Lord is good. – Psalm 34:12 & 8a (NRSV) The sounds of rain on the pavement and wind through the trees outside my window wake me up. The sun is content to bide its...
Sep 17, 2021 | vocation, wholeness
What do people gain from all the toil at which they toil under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. – Ecclesiastes 1:3-4 (NRSV) If the writer was discouraged about the purpose of toil in ancient times, how much more...
May 28, 2021 | faith, mystery
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Our God is in the heavens; God does whatever God pleases. … The heavens are the Lord’s heavens, but the earth has been given to human beings. – Psalm 115:2-3 & 16 (NRSV) Parenting college students is an...
Feb 7, 2021 | images of God, mental health, nature, wholeness
It is God who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in; who brings princes to naught, and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing. –...
Jan 30, 2021 | courage, faith, news
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God. God is in the midst of the city; it shall not be moved. – Psalm 46:2-5 excerpts (NRSV) My...
