Archive for September 2022
The Holy Work
When I first learned the early church fathers and mothers recognized the essentiality of knowing ourselves, I wondered why this was frowned upon in the evangelical church. Not only frowned upon, but discouraged because knowing ourselves was taught to be a selfish endeavor. Then I read Ministry in the Image of God by Stephen Seamands…
Read MoreThe Ill-Matched Threads
She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsof her life, and weaves them gratefullyinto a single cloth—it’s she who drives the loudmouths from the halland clears it for a different celebration. Where the one guest is You.In the softness of eveningit’s You she receives. You are the partner of her loneliness,the unspeaking center of her monologues.With each…
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