In earlier centuries, thousands of Christians took it upon themselves to become friars “on the move” so as to be found around neighborhoods where Christian community was weak or non-existent.
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Imagine.
ɪˈmædʒ.ɪn
Imagine is a word that fills the mouth.
For the next four weeks, the “Wisdom for the Way” will explore the parable, “The Jeweller,” from Soren Kierkegaard’s Stages of Life’s Way.
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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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Starting with a spark in the sticks, the Holy Spirit has a crackling flame now in a small rural community in Virginia. We have a fledging cradle for the birth of a new thing on fourteen acres along a major highway including a restaurant and motel.
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Something has happened. Something is different.
Is it my shoulders? Well...they don’t feel so heavy, hmm.
My jaw...it has been so tight lately... why, it has released, and I can move it all about!
And my chest...oh how I can breathe in so fully!
Tamira began tutoring in Dallas with students whose families could afford her, and through her supportive and creative teaching efforts, her students emerged from the formation of her tutoring to enter into successful college careers.
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Who am I becoming? As Scrooge encounters a future without him, rippling with the effects of a life long-lived under his miserly virtues and values, he comes face to face with the impact of his actions, the harvest of seeds long-sown.
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A STEM tutor enters the space and prepares to receive three students this afternoon, working their way towards the SAT.
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Seeing light coming from the other room, Scrooge peeks inside to find that sure enough, the next ghost has paid his visit.
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This post originally was published on the My Spiritual Journey blog. Glenna is a friend of the Missional Wisdom Foundation who lives and writes in Dallas, Texas.
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Charles Dickens’s response to widespread apathy for the plight of the poor was to write A Christmas Carol. We owe the humanitarian spirit of the Christmas season to this work.
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“This is what I really need to know: is there a place for me in Christianity?” She was sitting in my office at The Foundry House intentional community, wearing rainbow unicorn onesie pajamas with a “My pronouns are she/her” enamel pin attached.
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There is something coming.
Quick, before it is too late, listen.
Do you hear the sound of the oboe? Do you hear the tuning of the violins? Do you hear the rustle of the music on the stand?
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Jang-Mi Min was a person of private passion. Reserved to most, she was said by those closest to her to have an electric current of desire, for a few things, pulsing through her.
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He wiped the tears from His eyes, sighed a bit too heavily, and knocked the dust off of His sandals.
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Over the past month, as I have walked across Spain on the Camino Francais, I have had a fun friend who has journeyed with me, Hootie the Hoot-Owl.
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People have been doing this for centuries, even before Christianity. They walk for all sorts of reasons: to heal, to nurture health, some government jobs in Spain even require you to have walked the Camino and earned your Compostela.
Most Tanzanians are peaceful, but Marwa’s tribe thought machetes were meant to be used for more than cutting up firewood. They were great for keeping your women in line too.
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