WISDOM LIST #12
How to Choose a Melon Melon season is a rather long season and growing various varieties goes on all summer. Melons grow when it is […]
August 2024
LISTENING AND OBEYING
From the Desert Fathers: “Some brothers… went to see Abba Felix and they begged him to a say a word to them. After they had […]
WHAT OTHERS THINK
I once read ‘that you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.’ This […]
EATING OUT OF BOWLS
In the night I heard ‘most of the world eats out of bowls.’ My first thought was an image of ‘feeding the poor’ and how […]
ACCOMPANIED LIFE
George Fox (1624-1691) founder of the Quaker movement wrote: ‘the accompanied life is when we know that God is with us.’ In Fox’s terminology it […]
GRACE AND THE CROSS
There is considerable frustration when we try to produce our own righteousness instead of faith in the work of the Cross. We can think we […]
PITY AND COMPASSION
The insightful Howard Thurman (1899-1981) author, theologian and philosopher wrote: distinguishing between pity and compassion: “God is making room in my heart for compassion. There […]
PLACE OR PERSON
In John 4 is the story of Jesus and the (no name) Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well. After an exchange about the water and her […]
WORKING QUIETLY
Paul, an apostle, wrote to the Galatian church: “Each person should judge his own actions and not compare himself with others. Then he can be […]
BAD-MOUTHING
There are many scriptures that teach and warn us of the danger in bad-mouthing. James says, “And among all the parts of the body, the […]