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“Of His faithfulness we have all received, and grace upon grace.”  John 1:16 “I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.”  Anne Lamott Grace has been foremost in my mind, and my life experience lately. How about…

“The light shines in the darkness.” John 1 “How far the little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Shakespeare How do you see the light? How do you be the light? The light is changing. The sun is taking a different course. It is now dark when I…

“This is my beloved Son, listen to Him.”  Matthew 17:5 “Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.” Malcolm Muggeridge Did you hear the inner voice of love this past week? If so, when? Where?  What did it sound like?…

“The Voice of One calling in the wilderness.”  Isaiah 40:3 “What is this whisper I hear in the stillness, this voice I hear calling out to my heart when the cares of this world drop away?”[i] “Only by attending constantly to the inner voice can you be converted to a new life of freedom and…

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the offspring of her womb?  Surely they may forget, but I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands, you are ever before me.”   Isaiah 49:15-16 “That mysterious diffused light that calls us onward seems…

“Not all who wander are lost.” “If you get lost sit down and wait, and I will find you.”  Ralph L. Patrick “Elijah went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree.  And he prayed that he might die . . . then as he lay and slept…

“The deep, meaningful, and true things don’t shout, they whisper.  Though they run through the heart of all things, they are only perceived by those who have learned to embrace the silence.”  Erik Stensland “Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.”  Dennis Covington “ .…

“The Mystery of God is Great”  St. Paul “So let go, of the world you know.  There’s something waiting for you, in the Great Unknown.”  Jukebox the Ghost We live under the illusion of certainty. We suffer from the deception that we can and should be certain about life. Our spiritual lives stagnate in the…

“In Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself . . .therefore the love of Christ compels us.” 2 Corinthians 5 “Unforgiveness is the poison chalice that we drink from in the hopes of hurting others.” What’s your favorite ice cream?  Friday night the church I pastor in Allenspark had an old-fashioned ice cream social. …

“Behold what manner of love the father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God.”  1 John The child was the offspring of her father’s immense love.  From the very moment of her conception, he knew her. . . and loved her as only he could. He knew her, and he…