“Gratefulness is more than a feeling that comes over us when good things happen. It’s an active search to notice and be present to the goodness already around us — gaining eyes to see and ears to hear the abundance God has woven into the world.” (...
…Deep, deep Love. Love IS the seed of the Spirit that is sown in our depth. Its origin and abiding place is in the depths of inmost being, at the level of human spirit. It germinates and gives birth in our spirit to its own kind in us and from our spirit, as the...
I awaken early each day. The first thing I do is listen to SDT. Then I reflect on the text and pray. I have been so filled with the Word through the reflected and refracted glory of God in this Elijah story through the eyes and voice of JD Walt, some morning I...
“Luke Timothy Johnson said once that expecting folks to fall in love with scripture through the historical-critical method is like expecting someone to fall in love with someone via autopsy.” From Father Everett on Twitter Dissection and examination may...
This picture, Jesus Calms the Storm, has hung in our home for 25 years, since the season of a fierce storm that blew from the four corners of the earth and would have destroyed my mind, my family, even my life but for the presence of Jesus with us in the boat. There...
Humanity and its earthly habitat, which God called “very good” soon got off track in Eden due to men’s and women’s lack of experience with a crafty low-life character who had been exiled from holy Heaven to this new earthly...
