The Mix Feeding Kitchen

Spotlight, Wisdom for the WayMissional Wisdom FoundationApril 25, 2023The Mix Feeding Kitchen, service, missional living, Missional Inclusion, Missional StorytellingComment

Christ is Risen

As I write this, I am surrounded by miracles. Within and without.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalJim HunterApril 11, 2023The Samaritan's Friend, Lent, Lent Incarnate, Incarnational StudyComment

Good Friday

I stepped out of the psych ward and into the hall after visiting—we’ll call her Suzy. She was a preteen; a basketball playing, honest yet sneaky, beautiful, hilarious little girl.

When You Can Say Never

The names in the following haven’t been changed to protect the innocent. No one in the following is innocent.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalJim HunterMarch 21, 2023The Samaritan's Friend, Lent, Lent Incarnate, Incarnational Study, PilgrimageComment

The Look

What would your theology be in one, simple sentence?

Abundantly With

Her snaggle teeth flashed in her grin as she rushed to the entrance of the school-turned-arts-center. She had her very own violin in it’s very own case.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleFebruary 7, 2023Liturgy for the Mundane, One By One, Spiritual Practice, Theme XLVComment

Ardent Participation

The risers jounced and rebounded under the pounding of a thousand jumping feet. The stadium air reached body temperature as the exhaled shouts formed a miasma of heat and sound.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleJanuary 24, 2023Liturgy for the Mundane, One By One, Spiritual Practice, Theme XLVComment

With One-by-one

Take a look around you. Just in your very immediate surroundings (three-foot radius with you at the center), how many things are there to keep you from being bored?

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleJanuary 17, 2023Liturgy for the Mundane, One By One, Spiritual Practice, Theme XLVComment

Rules for Life

live this life and do whatever is done, in a spirit of loving kindness.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleJanuary 10, 2023Liturgy for the Mundane, One By One, Spiritual Practice, ThemeXLV, Theme XLVComment

Continually Restored

How does one live one by one? To see each car that passes, not as a soulless mechanized obstacle, but as a vehicle containing someone…

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleDecember 20, 2022Community as Creation, ThemeXLIV, Advent, Advent Incarnate, Incarnational StudyComment

Speaking Life

Fact: a paper bag used to bring home various comestibles is a grocery bag, sack, or, apparently, a poke. It is not a robot mask.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleDecember 13, 2022Advent, Advent Incarnate, Community as Creation, creativity, Theme XLIVComment

An Answered Call

Breakfast begins right after the dinner dishes are done. After the dishwasher is started, I set up my coffee to drip, automatically, at 7:25 am and mix together breakfast.

The Fast of Justice

In the beginning was the Word... In the beginning, God said let there be…What does it mean to create?

Remembering to Show Up

The Feast of All Saints is an invitation to remember. Not just a fond reminiscence, but “a deeper, slower kind of remembering; it means remembering as a searching and finding.” (Buechner, A Crazy, Holy Grace, 60)

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleNovember 22, 2022ThemeXLIII, Remembering a Saint, Pain, GriefComment

Let Us Remember

The Feast of All Saints is an invitation to remember. Not just a fond reminiscence, but “a deeper, slower kind of remembering; it means remembering as a searching and finding.” (Buechner, A Crazy, Holy Grace, 60)

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleNovember 16, 2022ThemeXLIII, Remembering a Saint, Pain, GriefComment

A Prayer for All Saints

Oh God of all the Saints, We come to you as a people not simply as individuals. We gather together and pray to you as a community of Saints, both living and in glory.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalMissional Wisdom FoundationNovember 8, 2022ThemeXLIII, Remembering a Saint, Pain, GriefComment

The Scary Depths

The Feast of All Saints is celebrated on the first day of November. It is a day that we remember. Today I am remembering Frederick Buechner.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleNovember 1, 2022ThemeXLIII, Remembering a Saint, Pain, GriefComment

Advent Incarnate: Community as Creation

My daughter and I were on a walk today when she gasped and pointed with a breathless, “Look at that one!”

Abundantly

For the last several weeks, we have been taking a stroll through what it means to live rooted in grace when life throws difficult dialogue in our paths.

Perhaps...Apparently

I have no favorite children, but I do have beloved words. Perhaps, apparently, generative, credulous, and meticulous are some of my favorites.