August 23, 2026
Our Fellow Traveller
When we walk with Jesus we can know that we have a fellow traveller, someone-with-us.
August 22, 2026
Deep Friendship
Deep friendship is a calling forth of each other’s chosenness and a mutual affirmation of being precious in God’s eyes.
August 21, 2026
Chosen and Blessed
In this world when you are chosen, you know that somebody else is not chosen. When you are the best, you know that somebody is not the best.
August 20, 2026
Called Back to that First Love
I am a limited, partial, broken reflection of a love that is unlimited, impartial, whole.
August 19, 2026
You Alone, O Lord
Am I destined to excite others to reach the promised land while remaining unable to enter there myself?
August 18, 2026
Letting Go
Detachment is often understood as letting loose of what is attractive.
August 17, 2026
Lord of Abundance
We constantly try to hold onto our old logic and Jesus keeps trying to break through it to a new way of being.
August 16, 2026
Endless Embrace
Out of that grave of despair, Jesus comes to us, as he came out of his place of despair, the tomb. He encounters us. He says something we keep forgetting, the core of his message: “Love one another because I have loved you first.”
August 15, 2026
Life in Communion
Life, as many of us know, can actually become more difficult – more painful – when we choose to follow Jesus.
August 14, 2026
Discovering the Small Intimate Voice
Have you ever tried to spend a whole hour doing nothing but listening to the voice that dwells deep in your heart? Where there is no radio to listen to, no TV to watch, no book to read, no person to talk to, no project to finish, no phone call to make, how does that make you feel?
August 13, 2026
People of Reconciliation
If you dare to believe that you are beloved before you were born, you may suddenly realize that your life is very, very special.
August 12, 2026
Hope Built on Promise
Optimism arranges reality in a way that enables us to say things will get better. Pessimism arranges the same reality so that we can say things will probably get worse.
August 11, 2026
Kingdom Logic
Remember the big crowd, five loaves, and two fish (Matt. 14:15-21)? Jesus said, “Give them something to eat.” The disciples responded, “Lord, five loaves, two fish, big crowd? It doesn’t fit.”
August 10, 2026
Revelation
Perhaps the best definition of revelation is the uncovering of the truth that it is safe to love.
August 9, 2026
Gently Return to the Center
Solitude is a way to get a little control over our own inner life.
August 8, 2026
Reborn in God
Help me, O Lord, to let my old self die, to let die the thousand big and small ways in which I am still building up my false self and trying to cling to my false desires.
August 7, 2026
Freedom In Letting Go
I have noticed in my own life that people I don’t like have power over me because I am always thinking about them.
August 6, 2026
Discovering Our True Self
To give a blessing is to affirm, to say “yes” to a person’s Belovedness.
August 5, 2026
I Love You Too
God loved you before you were born, and God will love you after you die. In Scripture God says, “I have loved you with an everlasting love.”
August 4, 2026
Discovering Our True Self
The spiritual journey is essentially different from engaging in hero worship or joining a therapeutic movement.