We just arrived at the Isle of Iona. Words cannot describe what my eyes are attempting to capture.
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Although there are many memorable moments when one goes on a spiritual pilgrimage to Iona, two stand out in my mind from my recent experience.
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My daughter and I were on a walk today when she gasped and pointed with a breathless, “Look at that one!”
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The Coventry Carol is a song of lament both gentle and grotesque. The tune, The French Carol, is sad but soothing.
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Jesus sat on a largish boulder, grinding some chalky limestone into powder with another rock.
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For those of you who can recall my earlier observations of our family dog pack, you may recall that between the one dog in our home and the dogs of our grown children, we had six dogs in our collective pack.
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I am sitting in the office I share with my husband, surrounded on three sides by books.
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The Missional Wisdom Foundation, and I with it, have spent the last several years trying to ask good questions about what it means to live in grace-filled and producing communities.
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In my first few years of sobriety, as I was rebuilding my life and it felt like every door was closed to me, my AA sponsor would encourage me to stand in the dark hallway and wait for God to open another door.
One. That’s how many all-nighters I’ve pulled. And it wasn’t even to study or complete a project.
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When you think of the border, do you feel powerlessness, Church?
Read MoreYou are an asylum seeker. Maybe you got into a fight with the wrong person on the football field, and now you’re being threatened by one of the local gangs.
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For the past several months, I have been spending time with the spiritual practice of The Welcoming Prayer. This prayer was created by Mary Mrozowski and taught and popularized by Father Thomas Keating and the Contemplative Outreach Community.
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CHRIST IS RISEN!
HE IS RISEN, INDEED!
VICTORY OVER SIN AND DEATH HAS BEEN WON.
LOVE WINS!
I have worked as a type of missionary with an unusual people group in my own community for years. Most of my educational effort on both the graduate and post graduate level has been largely focused on how we engage this affinity group with the Christian message in a way that is restorative in nature while being both easy to appropriate and reproducible.
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The season of Epiphany is a time to celebrate the incarnational presence of God in the world. Jesus is here! Death is defeated! His life of miracle and mission imparts hope and purpose into humanity. It is a new season that invites us to reflect on the miracles at work.
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It is not difficult to imagine that the young Virgin Mary likely had an ordinary plan for her life before the Annunciation. When Gabriel arrived and Mary consented to be the mother of the Christ child, it is unlikely that she fully grasped the scope of that role.
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“Let’s go out for dinner tomorrow!” said a friend. With a lot of inward hesitation and so many internal thoughts, I shyly say, “Yes!”
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There is a vision to be cast in parenting: a vision of how children should be raised, become self-sufficient, good-for-society people. As a parent, I believe it is my job to create said vision for my own children. I plan to do this in tandem with my husband, but I recognize that not all parents have the luxury of having a parenting partner.
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When my Mom (Denise Crane), who is a Leader in the Missional Wisdom Foundation, recommended I write about Christian Parenting, I thought How does a parent write about parenting? What makes me an authority on parenting? What makes me an authority on Jesus and what people have termed “following after Christ”?
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