I find there is great comfort in specificity. So much of what pulls my heart around is more a general sense of something, a nagging disease with some unidentified something, a cloudy shadow of something. But what is it?! Why do I find myself sighing sometimes, or fearing sometimes, or discovering new unhappiness sometimes. It’sContinue reading “Waking Up- Using Lent as a Season of Examination”
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Your spiritual nerve endings may be shot
At a couple different stages in childhood, our brain pruned neurons that were underused. It was creating clearer pathways, concentrating energy, codifying regular patterns. It’s called synaptic pruning (How crazy wonderful is the human brain?! I’m imagining a lumpy gardener with tiny shears.) What’s done is done. We can’t grow those neurons back. New pathwaysContinue reading “Your spiritual nerve endings may be shot”
On Dying with Jesus
“I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.” –Philippians 3 It’s not exactly good advertising: COME DIE WITH JESUS! That’s one reason people aren’t flocking into the Church these days.Continue reading “On Dying with Jesus”
Today, if you hear his voice 