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Week 39 / 40: deconstruction and reconstruction
Deconstruction has become something of a buzz word—and unfortunately a cliche—in the world of homegrown evangelical Christians. I’m not sure it’s the best word to use for the process many of us who grew up in the church are going through (or have gone or will go through). Personally, I’d like to use the word Continue reading
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Week 38: burdens
“Are you weary, carrying a heavy burden? Then come to me. I will refresh your life, for I am your oasis. Simply join your life with mine. Learn my ways and you’ll discover that I’m gentle, humble, easy to please. You will find refreshment and rest in me. For all that I require of you Continue reading
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Week 37: prayer
“Pray your hardest when it’s hardest to pray.” I saw this quote recently. And it rang true. I don’t know if I remember the last time I really prayed in this way (in the traditional sense at least). Sometimes I don’t know if I remember how, or ever even knew. It’s like I was always Continue reading
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Week 36: earth
There’s no quiet quite like this. The wind is the breath of God on my back, trying to speak what I can only hear here. It is so freeing to be lost; unaware of the noise. It’s only you and I and the earth. Nothing can take me from you here. To be alone is Continue reading
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Week 35: rest
“I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.” I do not rest as well or as often as I believe I do. Most “rest” is still activity in some way. Then there are the days we have no choice; we are forced to be still. When our bodies are weary and won’t Continue reading
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Week 34: cages
“…Sometimes I feel like my life / is a wild beast / trapped in an unlocked cage / and it is awfully / afraid of what lies / on the other side. // That is what hell is like; / having something / viciously brilliant inside of you, / but not believing in it enough Continue reading
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Week 33: the false/true worshiper (part 2)
Some of us may also be saying: “You know I’m not walking away from you. So what am I walking away from? Please, tell me.” He might respond in this way. “You are walking away from all the things that are associated with me, but are not me. The very things that may have once Continue reading
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Week 32: the false/true worshiper
“These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.” Am I a false worshiper? A dishonest worshiper? God asks us to be honest with ourselves. Because when we Continue reading
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Week 31: what brings meaning
“Love for the earth and love for you are having such a long conversation in my heart…” There must be more than the feeling, the experience, the answer. Are you the long longing, the inherent question, the unfulfilled desire? Are you what I am not meant to find though I seek? A door not meant Continue reading
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Week 30: alone(ness)
Why do certain days seem to haunt some deep part of us? A sense of loss pervades. Or of losing something not yet received. The belief that what we desire will never come to pass. How does one cease to feed this beast? Everyone is alone in the world. We are only to have pieces Continue reading
surely we do not mean only.”
a kingdom built of seeds 