8/5/10:  In my Lectio Divina group today, we read Hebrews 10:14 – “By virtue of that one single offering, He has achieved the eternal perfection of all whom He is sanctifying.”  Eternal perfection. My response was an incredulous, “Even me?”  After all these years, knowing my continuing imperfection, I still struggle to believe – really [...]

Posted in The Human Condition2 Comments » - Tags: Christianity, God, human condition, miracles, reaching to God

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

I talked today with a young man I know who is in prison for life.  Whenever I see him or hear from him, I am struck anew by the tragedy of a man’s whole life lived literally in a small cage, without opportunity to work, learn, create, produce – except as he can scrape together [...]

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Lent is coming.  February 17.  A time for being intentional about clearing away some of the obstacles between ourselves and God.  There is a standard practice of giving up something – chocolate, alcohol – for the forty days (minus Sundays) before Easter.  I’m not sure what that does for one’s closeness to God; I suppose [...]

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