HAVING IT ALL TOGETHER
Grace is beyond ‘a simple forgiveness and everything will be all right idea.’ When grace goes beyond realistic logic and even allows for lowering standards […]
Ben Fike
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GETTING IT
It seems to me that we are either:Getting Over itGetting Under itGetting Through itGetting By Or, Getting on with it. Before any of this we […]
THE WEDDING SONG
“He is now to be among you at the calling of your heartsRest assured this troubadour is acting on His part.The union of your spirits […]
PEACE AND JOY
Frederick Buechner wrote, “Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge […]
STAYING BUSY
Just reading this in the early morning and I’m going to be busy all the rest of the day. “Don’t just pretend to love others. […]
LOVING MY SELF
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with […]
LOVING MY NEIGHBOR
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with […]
LOVING GOD
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with […]
TO SEE GOD
Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929) mystic, Christian teacher wrote, “All of us have a natural, inborn desire to see God. But God is infinite and incomprehensible. […]
LEARNING TO LISTEN
Without a proclivity for faith, revelation, inquiry and wisdom, we are left with only what others tell us and what others have written. We should […]