“I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.
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The Gift of Joy and Wonder
from my wise internet friend Robert: “When did we stop asking questions? I suppose we wanted the questions to stop because they annoyed us so we began making proclamations instead. I think God would rather that we ask amazed questions rather than make exhausted declarations. I think He would have us wondering aloud at the beauty of it all. I think Jesus welcomes children because we adults get too tired.”
Recently, Karrie and I adopted two young boys. We have been in the adoption process for some time yet the news still came as a surprise (which we received while on vacation in Tibet). We got home and two days later were meeting the amazing birth family. Our life has been a bit topsy-turvy since then – yet in a wonderful way. I have not really had the chance to write or even time to reflect it seems as this rather dramatic change in our life has unfolded. Yet, over and over again, I have found myself touched by one particular thing – the fresh joy with which children view the world.
There is a tiredness to life that sets in over time. Perhaps it is jaded-ness or perhaps it is ennui – whatever one calls it the result is the same. Life looks less like living and more like…
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“The Potato Eaters” Vincent van Gogh
It is potatoes and coffee at the end of a long, exhausting, grating day, but it is the widow’s mite–offering up what little there is to give, holding nothing back for oneself, mimicking God’s offering in Jesus.
rock your body right
I think I’ve never gotten over throwing tantrums. Continue reading
Are you being fed?
from my colleague, the Rev. Dane Boston, on hunger and Jesus
A Sermon Preached on the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, August 16, 2015
By the Rev’d Canon Dane E. Boston, Trinity Cathedral, Columbia, South Carolina
Texts: Proverbs 9:1-6; Ephesians 5:15-20; John 6:51-58
“My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.”
May I speak in the Name of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Are you being fed?
The Church has been called a hospital for sinners. In light of this morning’s Scripture lessons, couldn’t we also call it a food bank for starving souls?
And so the question is: Are you being fed?
I suppose I should make clear that that question has nothing to do with Andrella and her wonderful team of kitchen volunteers, or with the covered dish luncheon that we are all invited to enjoy in the Trinity Center after the service. Feasting and feeding together are things that…
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hope of things not seen 