I have an assignment to write a short story themed on “love.”  What a huge topic!  How can I say anything new about it?  How can I come up with a story that is not smarmy and trite?  The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that everything is love – [...]

Posted in Epiphany, Love, The Human Condition2 Comments » - Tags: Christianity, creation, God, human condition, love, nature

It is to me a marvel, the way seemingly disparate sources give us puzzle pieces that fit together into a unified whole.  I seem to be developing a whole cosmology (or is the Spirit teaching me?) out of bits of various readings. Awhile back, in N.T. Wright’s Simply Christian and Surprised by Hope, I found [...]

Posted in What Is Man?3 Comments » - Tags: Christianity, creation, God, human condition, love, mystery, reaching to God

Driving Up-Valley today, I was struck afresh by the advent of spring.  Everywhere were green grasses, green trees, green hedges, even green weeds.  So much green!  God must love that color, since he has made so many shades, and apportioned them so liberally over His earth, and planted that same love in the hearts of His [...]

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Reading the creation story in Genesis, I suddenly pictured myself tucked safely under God’s arm, watching as He worked, day by day calling more and more of His universe into being.  “Let there be light,” He said.  Now, I can conceive of utter darkness, no-light.  But what would it be, from eternal darkness, when there [...]

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