A friend asked me a question today,Is God good or is God everything?And I realized I didn’t have an answer. Maybe that’s okay.Questions always seem like a good idea, learning, wisdom, exploration. But sometimes questions offer more grace than answers, and sometimes the non answer leads to more questions.I don’t understand the ins and outsContinue reading “question”
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Prayer in the Night
Tish’s first book, The Liturgy of the Ordinary, is one of my all time favorites, and this is one now, too. such a good and thorough and thoughtful look at grief, heaviness, sorrow, fear, pain, anguish — and hope, joy, peace, not despite those other things, but because of and in the midst of them.Continue reading “Prayer in the Night”
lent ii
Today is the second Sunday in Lent. I often give something up for Lent. I have enough of a disordered approach to food that I do not do well when I cut out foods or drinks (one year in college I cut out caffeine, and never again. My poor professors and friends!). In the pastContinue reading “lent ii”
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