inspiration
This week my friend Sara reminded me that the really amazing thing about 1 Corinthians 13 is that even hundreds of thousands of schlocky wedding and inspirational posters and bad Christian coffee mugs can't kill it. Paul's hymn to love is perhaps one of the most recognizable texts in the New Testament. And it is really beautiful
ABC's Nightline has been running a series on the Ten Commandments in which they explore the issues and dimensions of each commandment in contemporary society.
To you who are lost today
like a needle in a haystack, reading this poem alone.
Alone, brother island, sister moon. The ocean is big,
Seventeen activists and church leaders talk about the disciplines that keep them girded for the struggle.
I loved that movie with Mandy Moore about a terminally ill preacher’s daughter who tutored a rebellious peer.
Patience may be a virtue, but it’s definitely not my strong suit. I hate to wait. H-A-T-E it.
A grace of green, the underleaf
of olive, the birdsong’s
cradling. It’s as though
Imperfection is the place where the spirit enters,
the small hole in your shirt, the loosening threads
of carpet, the ache in your soul for forgiveness.
Like the iris
in the side yard,
I have stopped blooming.
Dig me up, O Spirit,
and split me; where I have grown
calloused, break me open;