A reflection on faith’s call to embrace God’s love of our true selves, inspired by a quote from Simone Weil about ‘unreal’ love.
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We cannot ignore our differences, but we can choose to focus on what unites us. As John Wesley wrote, “Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike?”
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What makes you you? Or me me? I used to be convinced it was some function of my brain activity — the ways we think, our personalities. But loving someone with Alzheimer’s has me reconsidering that. Maybe we need to rethink what we mean when we use the word ‘soul.’
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against things like this.…
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Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, the Christmas season has begun. Many of us spend Thanksgiving weekend watching football and getting ready for Christmas. We do…
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Despite taking Spanish in high school and Greek in seminary, I only speak English. One day this summer, however, I’m pretty sure I understood Italian, because…
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On Friday night I was reminded of what ministry is all about.
This weekend I had the privilege of officiating the wedding of a young woman I met when she was in eighth grade, and the young man she loves (congrats Lillian and Tristan). Not long ago while cleaning up my contacts I found “Lillian’s the Best” – the contact she entered as a high school student. Lillian and I went through a lot of fun stuff and some difficult times. This weekend I was privileged to participate in the happiest day of her life.
At the wedding I chatted with two other couples whose weddings I had officiated in the past seven years or so. One couple shared about their young child and another on the way. All of this served as a reminder that ministry offers us the privilege to be invited into people’s lives in profound ways.
Leave a CommentIf you read this enough you know that I have been tempted to turn our praise team into a David Crowder cover band. So you…
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