Driving back from hospital visits today, I was listening to our country music station. How often does a popular song articulate the call of ministry?
“Never let your prayin’ knees get lazy, and love like crazy.”
Lee Brice
Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you. What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is a cross.
Flannery O’Connor
Lord, give us the audacity to live as though we believe our hands and feet are instruments of prayer. Amen.
(from Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Enuma Okoro)
perhaps more to come today–last night, Dessert & Discussion met at Trinity Cathedral, we watched a video by Shane & Jonathan about how Christians are to live as a community in an ever-more-individualistic world…
A young Syrian Jesuit, now living in Nebraska, prays for his nation and for himself: http://thejesuitpost.org/site/2013/09/a-prayer-for-syria/
(selections read at the 12:15pm daily Eucharist on September 13th, 2013, at Trinity Cathedral in Columbia, South Carolina)
Bishop Waldo quotes Thomas Morely:
Worship is to “…draw the hearer, as it were, in chains of gold by the ears to the consideration of holy things.”
hope of things not seen 