July 2011
29 posts
June 2011
26 posts
Today, let's kick some ass.
Thank you New York for being such a strong redemptive voice for all of America.
If you give me a fish, you have fed me for a day.
If you teach me to fish, then you have fed me until the river is contaminated or the shoreline seized for development.
But if you teach me how to organize, then whatever the challenge I can join together with my peers and we will fashion our own solution.
That’s why God as Father. As Mother. As endless love for you, as endless as the night heavens spreading to infinity, as the warm earth beneath holding you in her bosom. May they wrap you in that love every night, with that love as a lullaby in your heart as you go to sleep. Sleep well, child, you are forever cared for.
People who thank God every morning for the new day in their lives, people who praise God through their delight in existence and glorify God through their love for life, are not doing something singular. They are only doing what all creatures do, universally and unceasingly, each in its own way. With the lives they live these people are joining with cosmic resonance of God’s goodness and beauty. To...
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Oh God of pure goodness, be our healer.
Heal the depths of our hearts, mending our darkest wounds.
Heal through our actions, mending the wounds of others.
Amen.
We don’t have nothin’ if we don’t have love.
If you were a floor, I’d want to be the rug.
Greed has corrupted the good world God has created.
We as God’s people are called to corrupt greed.
Prosperity has corrupted the simplicity God has intended for God’s people.
We as God’s people are called to corrupt Prosperity.
War has corrupted the shalom of God’s creation.
We as God’s people are called to corrupt War.
He is Risen, may we rise and corrupt.
Goshen College keeps the national anthem out of sporting events!!!
http://101.gs/wrurxyn
Francis Chan missed the mark. →
There’s none too poor, too dirty, too broken, too naked, too stupid, too drunken, to be thrown outside of God’s love!
For God loves the whole world, not a select few, not an elect few, not only the Christian few.
God’s love is not limited, God’s grace is not limited, the gates to Heaven are open now and forever more.
Amen.
